Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:45:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:34:43 +0200
> Doing a check that is inherently racy everywhere doesn't seem like a > security improvement to me. If there is really a length checking bug > somewhere it needs to be fixed in a race-free way. If not then there > is no need for a change.
Totally agreed, this change makes no sense on every level. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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