On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Yann Droneaud <[email protected]> wrote:
> libibverbs must refuse to load arbitrary shared objects.
>
> This patch check the configuration directory and files for
> - being owned by root;
> - not being writable by others.

uverbs is an unprivileged interface.  Right now I can develop and test
libibverbs and driver code as an unprivileged user.  If I'm
understanding correctly, this patch would break that -- I'd have to
install to a root-owned directory to test.

What's the exploit this protects against?
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