[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Oct 2 16:57:24 UTC 2009


From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:54:12 +0200

> Think of the connector as a layer on top of netlink that allows more
> than a hard coded number of subsystems to use netlink.

There are no such limits in netlink, we have 'genetlink' which allows
an arbitrary number of subsystems to use netlink.

What connector provides over netlink/genetlink is something different
altogether.




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