Re: [PATCH 0/7] SECURITY ISSUE with connector for 2.6.31.y

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Philipp Reisner (philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx):
> The backported edition of the patchset for 2.6.31-stable.
> 
> Philipp Reisner (7):
>   connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data
>   connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback
>   connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always
>     kfree_skb()
>   dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged
>     processes
>   dst/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure dst
>   pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure pohmelfs
>   uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets

Thanks Philipp, I see it's already applied upstream, but it looks good to me.
Does drivers/w1/w1_netlink.c or drivers/connector/cn_proc.c need a caps check
added as well?

thanks,
-serge
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