Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756244Ab2B1AEy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:04:54 -0500 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:46940 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754177Ab2B1AEw (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:04:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:04:50 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Andrei Warkentin Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NetKGDB v3 Message-ID: <20120227160450.022784bb@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: <1330313411-845-1-git-send-email-andrey.warkentin@gmail.com> References: <1330137851-4716-1-git-send-email-andrey.warkentin@gmail.com> <1330313411-845-1-git-send-email-andrey.warkentin@gmail.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 16 On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:30:08 -0500 Andrei Warkentin wrote: > netkgdb is designed to accept connections > from any hosts, i.e. it is not necessary to specify these ahead > of time. This makes it that much more useful in a "this host crashed > and a I want a developer to take a look at it" scenario, common to > large scale test/QA farms and automated testing harnesses. And opens a security hole so wide that no production network or distro should ever enable it! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/