From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: drosenberg@vsecurity.com, jon.maloy@ericsson.com,
allan.stephens@windriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Security] TIPC security issues
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:28:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101024.222838.104033980.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinXmKrf+wovco0j_aBuB7=qSq42+bVCM-amfL7W@mail.gmail.com>
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:42:39 -0700
> David - the issue is _security_. The way to fix security problems is
> not to say "most things handle this correctly". The way to avoid them
> is to have several layers of handling things correctly, so that even
> when one turns out to be broken, the others still protect it.
Fair enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 23:45 TIPC security issues Dan Rosenberg
2010-10-22 0:31 ` [Security] " Linus Torvalds
2010-10-25 2:14 ` David Miller
2010-10-25 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-25 5:28 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-27 17:29 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-27 17:50 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 18:26 ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-10-27 18:34 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-27 19:27 ` David Miller
2010-10-28 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-28 18:45 ` Andy Grover
2010-10-28 18:49 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 18:27 ` Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-27 18:35 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 19:00 ` Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-28 19:51 ` Paul Gortmaker
2010-10-22 13:49 ` Jon Maloy
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