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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:15:36 +0200
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Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
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On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Stefan Berger wrote:
> I can start my dummy netlink 'server' twice and have two recipients of the 
> libvirt 
> message and thus two servers can (maliciously) respond. Well, netlink 
> doesn't
> seem to be as 'directed' as unixio. We could run the netlink type of 
> messages

libvirt can still check if the sender pid of the response is what it
thinks it should be.

	Arnd