From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:30:32 +0200
> qemu runs in the host, but it's unpriveledged: it gets > passed tun FDs by a priveledged daemon, and it only > has the rights to some operations, > in particular to attach and detach queues. > > The assumption always was that this operation is safe > and can't make kernel run out of resources. This creates a rather rediculous situation in my opinion. Configuring a network device is a privileged operation, the daemon should be setting this thing up. In no other context would we have to worry about something like this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
