Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2006-08-20 19:45:56
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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.