On Wed, Jan 26, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The biggest part of that is having nice interfaces. If you have good > interfaces, bugs are less likely to be problematic. For example, the > "seq_file" interfaces for /proc were written to clean up a lot of common > mistakes, so that the actual low-level code would be much simpler and not > have to worry about things like buffer sizes and page boundaries. I don't > know/remember if it actually fixed any security issues, but I'm confident > it made them less likely, just by making it _easier_ to write code that > doesn't have silly bounds problems.
And, did that nice interface help at all? No, it did not. Noone made seqfile mandatory in 2.6. Now we have a few nice big patches to carry around because every driver author had its own proc implementation. Well done... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
