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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: swhiteho@redhat.com
Cc: eugeneteo@kernel.org, drosenberg@vsecurity.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org,
	linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Security] [SECURITY] DECnet: need to validate user data and access data?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:21:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322.022101.45900222.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300785230.2558.6.camel@dolmen>

From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:13:50 +0000

> These functions are used in relation to conninit messages which, on the
> incoming side are checked in dn_nsp_in.c:dn_find_listener() via the
> calls to dn_check_idf() so that we should never queue an incorrectly
> formatted message to the socket. The intent was that all messages should
> be checked as early as possible on entry to the code so that we can then
> rely on their content later on without needing to check again.

Ok, so we should be find here.

Thanks for the explanation Steven.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21 23:41 [SECURITY] DECnet: need to validate user data and access data? Dan Rosenberg
2011-03-22  7:42 ` [Security] " Eugene Teo
2011-03-22  9:13   ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-03-22  9:21     ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-22 11:01     ` Dan Rosenberg

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