Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Workqueue freezer support.

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:46 am, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Sorry for the slow response. Busy still.
>
> On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 15:06, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I finally found some time to finish this off. I don't really like the
> > > end result - the macros looked clearer to me - but here goes. If it
> > > looks okay, I'll seek sign offs from each of the affected driver
> > > maintainers and from Ingo. Anyone else?
> >
> > What are your feelings about this: http://lwn.net/Articles/145417/ ?
>
> I'm sure it could work, but I do worry a little about the possibilities
> for exploits. It seems to me that if someone can get root, they an
> insmod a module that could schedule any kind of work via any process.
> Tracing that sort of security hole could be intractable. Christoph, is
> that something you've considered/have thoughts on? Perhaps I'm just
> being paranoid :>

If someone gets root access it means you're already exploited.

Cheers,
Con
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