From: John Jolly <jjolly@suse.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, venkat.x.venkatsubra@oracle.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rds: Error on offset mismatch if not loopback
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:28:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120921212849.GI14393@linux-tkdk.sfcn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120921.132045.951559071646755065.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 01:20:45PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Jolly <jjolly@suse.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:11:34 -0600
>
> > Attempting an rds connection from the IP address of an IPoIB interface
> > to itself causes a kernel panic due to a BUG_ON() being triggered. Making
> > the test less strict allows rds-ping to work without crashing the machine.
> >
> > A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the sytem.
>
> Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches to learn how to properly
> submit a change, in particular your patch submission was missing a
> proper signoff.
Thanks for catching that. Resubmitting with proper signoff.
>
> Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-21 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-20 7:11 [PATCH] rds: Error on offset mismatch if not loopback John Jolly
2012-09-21 17:20 ` David Miller
2012-09-21 21:28 ` John Jolly [this message]
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2012-09-21 21:32 John Jolly
2012-09-21 21:38 ` Venkat Venkatsubra
2012-09-22 19:25 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <CAKA=qzac9=UhLF_Z4FnnH+sR7xvkDux4oayC6dPYe=hMLsDxRg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-13 4:24 ` Josh Hunt
2013-11-13 15:16 ` Venkat Venkatsubra
2013-11-13 17:40 ` Josh Hunt
2013-11-14 0:55 ` Honggang LI
2013-11-14 1:27 ` Josh Hunt
2013-11-14 13:43 ` Venkat Venkatsubra
2013-11-15 2:32 ` Honggang LI
2013-11-19 23:33 ` Venkat Venkatsubra
2013-11-20 18:09 ` Venkat Venkatsubra
2013-11-20 18:54 ` David Miller
2013-11-20 21:28 ` Venkat Venkatsubra
2013-11-13 6:09 ` David Miller
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