netdev - Re: dhcpclient netlink bugs (was Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace)

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Message-Id: <E1Gv1Du-0002B1-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:46:50 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	stefan@...lof.de (Stefan Rompf)
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: dhcpclient netlink bugs (was Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace)

Stefan Rompf <stefan@...lof.de> wrote:
>
> Yes, the code has quite some trust into the kernel that if it answers the 
> asked question the answer is semantically correct. But to be fair, if you 
> issue a write(), you also expect the number of bytes written in return and 
> not the msec taken ;-) Will fix that and the other stuff you pointed out, 
> thanks!

I hope you checked that the message is really from the kernel (based on
saddr).  Unconnected sockets can receive messages from any user on the
host.

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