Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:46:05 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:15:28 +0200
> Others will consider it totally useless because it does not cover > all cases, but I think it is against the general principle of > precaution we try to apply in security.
Reading in a value from userspace twice for questionable "security" is just bogus. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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