Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: Allow permission checking in the receiver callbacks

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:20:57 +0400

Hi Philipp.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:48:07PM +0200, Philipp Reisner ([email-masked]) wrote:
> Various users of the connector should actually check if the
> sender's capabilities of a netlink/connector packet are
> actually sufficient for the operation they trigger. Up to
> now the connector framework did not allow the kernel side
> receiver to do so.
> 
> This patch set does the groundwork.
> 
> Philipp Reisner (4):
>   connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data
>   connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback
>   connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning
>   connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always
>     kfree_skb()

Patches look good to me.
Andrew please apply to the appropriate tree. I do not know whether it is
acceptible now, since it is not a bugfix, but merely a simple cleanup.
Feel free to add my signed off or ack, thank you.

>  Documentation/connector/cn_test.c      |    2 +-
>  Documentation/connector/connector.txt  |    8 ++++----
>  drivers/connector/cn_queue.c           |   12 +++++++-----
>  drivers/connector/connector.c          |   22 ++++++++--------------
>  drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c |    3 +--
>  drivers/staging/dst/dcore.c            |    2 +-
>  drivers/staging/pohmelfs/config.c      |    2 +-
>  drivers/video/uvesafb.c                |    2 +-
>  drivers/w1/w1_netlink.c                |    2 +-
>  include/linux/connector.h              |   11 ++++-------
>  10 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

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	Evgeniy Polyakov