Re: kdbus: credential faking

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Jul 11 2015 - 07:04:02 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:43:08PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> We need binary compatibility to dbus1. There're millions of
> applications and language bindings with dbus1 compiled in, which we
> cannot suddenly break.

But they can keep using the existing userspace dbus1, and move over
to an in-kernel dbus2 after being audited/ported.

This whole argumet of we did something stupid in userspace long ago, and
now need to move it to kernelspace is not very helpful.
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