From: Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@gmail.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:23:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6198FF.90801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120213160248.GA25655@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Am 13.02.2012 17:02, schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux:
> 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.
Are there any specific security aspects you're thinking of? Leaks to
userspace, divisions by zero and invalid packet offsets are already
taken care of.
> 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.
Thanks,
Mircea
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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
2012-03-15 7:23 ` Mircea Gherzan [this message]
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2012-03-16 7:53 ` Mircea Gherzan
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