On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Patrick McHardy [off-list ref] wrote:

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Patrick McHardy [off-list ref] wrote:

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Jon Masters wrote:

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On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:09 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:

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*). Per namespace cacheing allocation (the cachep bits). We know it's
still possible for weirdness to happen in the SLAB cache here.

Tiny race, needs reproducer.

Maybe. I think it's worth fixing anyway.

Absolutely, I'll also apply Eric's patch with the %p fix for the
slab name.

This would show kernel pointers in userspace ;-)
So, net->id is required.

I don't see the problem. But yes, it would be nicer to have an ID.

This is done (or rather, not done) to not show attackers
where data structures are.