From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:02:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120213160248.GA25655@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F392DFD.4070600@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 04:36:29PM +0100, Mircea Gherzan wrote:
> Gentle ping. This patch has been in the tracking system for over a
> month. Is there any reason not to apply it in arm/for-next?
Yes. It needs quite a review to make sure that there's absolutely no
possibility for userspace to be able to generate malicious ARM code
and then have it executed. Or put it another way: security paranoia.
I'm afraid that I've not been able to look at it at all yet, and I
haven't seen anyone looking at the code from that aspect.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-13 16:03 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1325937154-2656-1-git-send-email-mgherzan@gmail.com>
2012-02-13 15:36 ` [PATCH v7] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters Mircea Gherzan
2012-02-13 16:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2012-03-15 7:23 ` Mircea Gherzan
[not found] ` <20120315114151.GC15988@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-16 7:53 ` Mircea Gherzan
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