2010/5/3 Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:48 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote: > >> One exception I can think of: major misconfiguration can cause a >> wireless device to DMA data into sensitive memory locations. When >> evidence of this is detected, it might make sense to BUG_ON() >> (especially if the bogus DMA operations can be exploited remotely to >> overwrite arbitrary memory addresses). However, in that case, the >> attacker may have already overwritten panic() with malicious code as >> well, so even this case doesn't hold. > > And then there is a case when encryption fails and there is a risk of > transmitting data without encryption or accepting data without > verification. So kill the connection rather than the whole system. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
