Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Remove a dangerous debug print. | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:41:39 +0200 |
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Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 15:28 -0400, Nelson Elhage a écrit : > How would you feel about limiting the debug print to at most, say, 512 or 1024 > bytes? Even if it's only accessible to root by default, I don't a userspace > program should be able to accidentally corrupt the kernel stack by writing too > many bytes to a file in /proc.
Arent /proc writes limited to PAGE_SIZE anyway ?
On x86 at least, you cannot corrupt kernel stack, since its bigger than PAGE_SIZE.
I agree pktgen code is a bit ugly and needs a cleanup, but who cares ? :)
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