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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:35:56 +0200 From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote: > Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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