netdev - Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:14:35 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@...phalempin.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

> Expanding the heap,

That's a problem agreed  Ok you can just always use very
bss arrays sized for the worst case.

> Getting timestamps. 

At least on 64bit that's done in ring 3 only with a vsyscall.

> Waiting on futexes, 
> catching signals, polling file descriptors. Seeking, doing vectorized I/O. 
> Cloning.

That all can be done by the frontend reading/feeding
data into the pipe. But it shouldn't directly access the user data
to be immune against attacks.

> Codecs don't like to read/write raw video through a pipe...

I don't think that's given. It would need some restructuring,
but I think the end result would be likely worth it.

-Andi

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ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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