netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/

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Message-ID: <20101112224026.GA21134@core2.telecom.by>
Date:	Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:40:27 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:37:38PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:18:50 +0200
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:33:15AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> Also, the whole idea needs to be under a config option, so only
> >> the paranoid idiots turn it on.
> > 
> > Would be fun if something will break because ffff8800bcd498c0
> > will become something else. :-)
> 
> Actually, this is not even a joke.
> 
> Take a look at how we track what sockets a user wants dumped via
> the inet_diag netlink facility, the socket pointer is used as
> the identification cookie.

I think we should not expose kernel pointers in future interfaces,
but leave existing ones alone.
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