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
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