From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
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socketcan-core@l
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:22:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289524954.5167.80.camel@dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101111171754.0198e151@nehalam>
>
> Printing different data based on security state seems like an ABI
> nightmare.
>
I can't remove the data entirely, because that would seriously break the
ABI. I deliberately kept the same format so as not to break any
userspace programs relying on consistent output - are there really
programs that would break when they read a 0 instead of an address?
-Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 1:06 [PATCH 2/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/ Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12 1:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-12 1:22 ` Dan Rosenberg [this message]
2010-11-12 15:09 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-12 15:11 ` Dan Rosenberg
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