netdev - Re: [PATCH] LSM: Add security_socket_post_accept() and security_socket_post_recv

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Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:23:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greg@...kko.com
Cc:	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp, paul.moore@...com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LSM: Add security_socket_post_accept() and
 security_socket_post_recv_datagram().

From: Greg Lindahl <greg@...kko.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:52:28 -0700

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:14:11PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> We had a similar situation with read()'s on UDP sockets.
>> 
>> When poll() says something, it has to stick.
> 
> Isn't that completely different? Anyone who writes code that calls
> accept() quickly finds out that in the real world it fails for all
> kinds of reasons worth ignoring. As an example, a comment in ircd at
> the only accept call (circa 1998):

I said explicitly that hard errors are allows (out of file
descriptors, memory allocation failure)

Feel free to ignore what I'm saying, and I'll feel free to
ignore you too.
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