Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq', 'pm-cpuidle', 'pm-devfreq', 'pm-opp' and 'pm-tools'

[linux-drm-fsl-dcu.git] / Documentation / networking / netlink_mmap.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netlink_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/netlink_mmap.txt
index c6af4bac5aa8f914a83305831e10f285c1699fb2..54f10478e8e30ccda77da9d345c01b9ace781e07 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/netlink_mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netlink_mmap.txt
@@ -199,16 +199,9 @@ frame header.
 TX limitations
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-Kernel processing usually involves validation of the message received by
-user-space, then processing its contents. The kernel must assure that
-userspace is not able to modify the message contents after they have been
-validated. In order to do so, the message is copied from the ring frame
-to an allocated buffer if either of these conditions is false:
-
-- only a single mapping of the ring exists
-- the file descriptor is not shared between processes
-
-This means that for threaded programs, the kernel will fall back to copying.
+As of Jan 2015 the message is always copied from the ring frame to an
+allocated buffer due to unresolved security concerns.
+See commit 4682a0358639b29cf ("netlink: Always copy on mmap TX.").
 
 Example
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