Re: [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in release

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:37:01AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

> > The folks responsible are no longer active in kernel development ***
> > but as far as I know the async write(command), read(response) were
> > added to bsg over 10 years ago as proof-of-concept and never properly
> > worked in this async mode. The biggest design problem with it that I'm
> 
> It was born with that mode, but I don't think anyone ever really used it.
> So it might feasible to simply yank it. That said, just doing a prune
> mode at ->release() time doesn't seem like such a hard task.

"prune mode" being...?



[Index of Archives]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [IDE]     [Linux Wireless]     [Linux Kernel]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux