Re: wither bounds checking for networking sysctls

2007-09-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:17 -0700 >> Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a bit as >>> to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some

Re: wither bounds checking for networking sysctls

2007-08-31 Thread Rick Jones
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:17 -0700 Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a bit as to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some of the folks who did some internal review for me). Tha

Re: wither bounds checking for networking sysctls

2007-08-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:09:17 -0700 Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a > bit as to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some of > the folks who did some internal review for me). That leads to the > ques

wither bounds checking for networking sysctls

2007-08-30 Thread Rick Jones
While messing about with "sysctl_tcp_rto_min" I went back and forth a bit as to whether there should have been bounds checking (as did some of the folks who did some internal review for me). That leads to the question - is it considered worthwhile to add a bit more bounds checking to sundry ne