On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:12:00AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > I tend to agree with this position, except when it comes to handling > filesystems, where panic is often (but not always) the right thing to > do.
Given the choice between crashing the machine or potentially giving an attacker remote root access, I definitely prefer the former in many instances in the network stack. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/