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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:28:42 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, hagen@...u.net, xiaosuo@...il.com, wirelesser@...il.com, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, stable@...nel.org, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org> Subject: Re: [stable] PATCH] filter: fix sk_filter rcu handling Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 22:08 +0100, Andi Kleen a écrit : > > While working on this, I found an annoying problem with current code. > > > > This patch is a stable candidate. > > Does this actually fix a real world problem someone is experiencing? > "Theoretical races" are normally outside stable's scope. > > -Andi I guess its a security problem. We can probably write a program, run by unpriviledge user to crash the machine. I am not sure I want to spend time to write this program, I have other more interesting topics, but some hackers probably want to. -- 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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