Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Jon Masters wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:09 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: >>>>>>> *). Per namespace cacheing allocation (the cachep bits). We know it's >>>>>>> still possible for weirdness to happen in the SLAB cache here. >>>>>> Tiny race, needs reproducer. >>>>> Maybe. I think it's worth fixing anyway. >>>> Absolutely, I'll also apply Eric's patch with the %p fix for the >>>> slab name. >>> This would show kernel pointers in userspace ;-) >>> So, net->id is required. >> I don't see the problem. But yes, it would be nicer to have an ID. > > This is done (or rather, not done) to not show attackers > where data structures are. That's news to me, my /proc is full of kernel space pointers, including data. In any case, we need a fix for this suitable for 2.6.33. If you don't like using the pointer, please send a patch to add an id to the network namespaces. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
