Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <redacted>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:29:56 +0300

Hi.

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:37:46PM +0100, Lars Ellenberg (lars.ellenberg@linbit.com) wrote:

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If so, then this change introduces the possibility for normal users to
send privileged commands to connector based subsystems, even if they
may not be able to bind() to suitable sockets to receive any replies.

Am I missing something?

Yup, connector is very async at that place, but I wonder why the hell I
ever made that decision. I believe we can replace it with pure sync call
of the registered connector callback, since netlink is synchronous and
no one has any problem with it.

Yes, please it would really help us with what we're trying to do here.