From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Coverity policy for upstream (base) drivers.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:55:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112225511.GA10012@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151112140508.79489210@xeon-e3>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:05:08PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Looking at the Coverity scan for DPDK, it looks like all the base
> drivers are marked to be ignored.
>
> Although the changes to base drivers should not be done directly through
> DPDK list. I think it is still valuable to have these driver scanned and
> notify (badger) the vendors to fix there code.
>
> Since lots of the bugs could be there, just blindly ignoring warnings
> and issues is being naive.
I am with Stephen. Ignoring base driver vulns is a bad practice.
With these L1-L4 bugs the chances are good somebody could trigger these and
find 0days using tools as old and simple as this one:
http://isic.sourceforge.net/
Matthew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-12 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 22:05 Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-12 22:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-13 0:16 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-11-12 22:55 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2015-11-13 0:12 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-11-13 18:49 ` Matthew Hall
2015-11-13 19:21 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-11-13 19:23 ` Matthew Hall
2015-11-13 19:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-13 20:20 ` Matthew Hall
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