Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | From | Glen Turner <> | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 00:56:42 +0930 |
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On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 19:53 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > I never quite understood the rationale behind that one either: > if you worry about someone else controlling the timing of these events, > why do you not worry about timings on the local system. e.g. > it's not that hard to predict with similar accuracy when a hard disk > interrupt happened when a local process read something from disk. Or > when the keyboard/USB interrupt happened when you process keyboard input.
Accepting packets requires you to trust another party -- the network provider and users of your host's networked services -- which you do not have to trust otherwise.
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