netdev - Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line

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Message-Id: <201005261815.36512.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 18:15:36 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer@...ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Vivek Kashyap <vivk@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line

On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Stefan Berger wrote:
> I can start my dummy netlink 'server' twice and have two recipients of the 
> libvirt 
> message and thus two servers can (maliciously) respond. Well, netlink 
> doesn't
> seem to be as 'directed' as unixio. We could run the netlink type of 
> messages

libvirt can still check if the sender pid of the response is what it
thinks it should be.

	Arnd
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