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From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca•com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love•SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: anton@samba•org, mjt@tls•msk.ru, davem@davemloft•net,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger•kernel.org,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix security_socket_sendmsg() bypass problem.
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:00:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2DA12D.70003@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107260143.CGH18263.FOOSVMOQFJFLHt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On 7/25/2011 9:43 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Casey Schaufler wrote:
>>> OK. Then, the question is how to reduce performance loss by redundant
>>> security_socket_sendmsg() calls.
>> Not to be splitting hairs, but if the packets are headed to
>> different destinations the calls to security_socket_sendmsg()
>> are not redundant, they are necessary and appropriate. What
>> you have with sendmmsg() is an optimization that sacrifices
>> correctness for performance.
> Excuse me, but this thread is not trying to remove necessary and appropriate
> security_socket_sendmsg() calls. Linux 3.0 was released without necessary and
> appropriate security_socket_sendmsg() calls, and I'm trying to correct it (via
> msg11504.html or msg11510.html) for Linux 3.0.x stable release.

I understand. Sorry if I did a poor job of jumping into
the thread.

>> I fear that you are going to find that the work you have
>> to do to reduce the number of calls is going to outweigh
>> the benefits of your optimization, as has been pointed out
>> earlier.
> I fear it too. Unless many dozens (maybe some hundreds) of packets are sent by
> sendmmsg(), msg11504.html might show better performance than msg11510.html .
> But I don't have a machine to benchmark.

Is there some chance that the original authors could step up
to help with the benchmarking effort on this repair? Having been
on the end where I introduced problems more than once, I have a
good understanding of the principle "you broke it, you bought it".


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201107110304.p6B34422036886@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
     [not found] ` <201107191754.22391.paul.moore@hp.com>
     [not found]   ` <201107200142.p6K1gKYg077046@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
     [not found]     ` <201107211721.14511.paul.moore@hp.com>
2011-07-22 11:41       ` Question regarding sendmmsg() Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-22 12:27         ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-22 15:12           ` [PATCH] net: Fix security_socket_sendmsg() bypass problem Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-22 15:22             ` David Miller
2011-07-22 17:42               ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-22 18:31                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-23  5:20                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-23  7:04               ` Michael Tokarev
2011-07-23 10:39                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-25 12:20                   ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-25 13:15                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-25 15:44                       ` Casey Schaufler
2011-07-25 16:43                         ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-25 17:00                           ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
2011-07-26  9:55                           ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-26 11:21                             ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-07-26 13:58                               ` Eric Paris
2011-07-28  3:36                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-02  6:07                                   ` David Miller
2011-08-02  9:28                                     ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-02 11:18                                       ` David Miller
2011-08-02 11:26                                         ` David Miller
2011-08-02 11:52                                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-02 12:01                                             ` David Miller
2011-08-02 13:11                                               ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-03  3:25                                                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-03  3:38                                                   ` David Miller
2011-08-03  3:47                                                     ` Anton Blanchard
2011-08-03 12:20                                                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-03 13:29                                                         ` Anton Blanchard
2011-08-03 13:37                                                           ` Eduard Sinelnikov
2011-08-03 21:50                                                           ` Tetsuo Handa
2011-08-04 12:56                                                             ` Anton Blanchard
2011-08-03 13:54                                                   ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-26 20:30         ` Question regarding sendmmsg() Paul Moore

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