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

[Patrick McHardy <kaber trash net>]

Am 04.03.2011 02:29, schrieb Evgeniy Polyakov:
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:37:46PM +0100, Lars Ellenberg (lars ellenberg linbit com) wrote:
>> 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.
> 

Are you going to do this or do you want me to take care of it?