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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Netlink mmap tx security?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:45:22 +0200
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On 10/15/2014 04:01 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:16:46 -0700
>
>> It's at least remotely possible that there's something that assumes
>> that assumes that the availability of NETLINK_RX_RING implies
>> NETLINK_TX_RING, which would be unfortunate.
>
> I already found one such case, nlmon :-/

Hmm, can you elaborate? I currently don't think that nlmon cares
actually.