[LTP] [PATCH v2 3/3] Add test for CVE 2017-1000111
Petr Vorel
pvorel@suse.cz
Mon May 25 18:28:39 CEST 2020
Hi Martin,
> > Don't we want to add here taint check (you had it in v1)?
> > tst_taint_init(TST_TAINT_W | TST_TAINT_D);
> Taint check is meaningless in this test because the only ill effect from
> the race condition is that all incoming packets will be truncated to 0
> bytes. Somebody would have to horribly break the code for receiving
> incoming packets in order to turn this bug into something that can
> actually taint the kernel.
Right, that makes no sense to add it then.
Thanks for explanation and your patchset, merged.
Kind regards,
Petr
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