[systemd-commits] src/libsystemd-bus

Lennart Poettering lennart at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu Dec 26 16:20:39 PST 2013


 src/libsystemd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1 |    5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 3e8ba0b815ebe83e396eb911fa9302e6ddb0ac07
Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date:   Fri Dec 27 01:20:21 2013 +0100

    bus: actually, the kernel does enforce validity of bus names...

diff --git a/src/libsystemd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1 b/src/libsystemd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
index 9300137..f2cf277 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
+++ b/src/libsystemd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
@@ -459,11 +459,6 @@ name. The ioctl will return an offset into the memory pool. After
 reading all the data you need you need to release this via the
 KDBUS_CMD_FREE ioctl(), similar how you release a received message.
 
-Note that the kernel does not know anything about properly formatted
-dbus bus names. It is hence essential that you verify the validity of
-all bus names returned by the kernel (for example in message meta data
-or when listing acquired names), and ignore invalid entries.
-
 CREDENTIALS
 
 kdbus can optionally attach all kinds of metadata about the sender at



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