On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:08:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If user asks for a congestion control type with setsockopt() then it > may be available as a module not included in the kernel already. > It should be autoloaded if needed. This is done already when > the default selection is change with sysctl, but not when application > requests via sysctl. > > Only reservation is are there any bad security implications from this?
What if system is badly configured, so it is possible to load malicious module by kernel? -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html