[ovs-dev] [PATCH v10 0/6] Convert DPDK configuration from command line to DB based

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 06:04:44AM +0000, Wojciechowicz, RobertX wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Aaron
> > Conole
> > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 8:55 PM
> > To: dev at openvswitch.org
> > Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v10 0/6] Convert DPDK configuration from
> > command line to DB based
> > 
> > Hi (and apologies if the top posting is inappropriate),
> > 
> > Don't want to be a pest, but just pinging re: this series. What work
> > remains? I want to try and close this out to do some additional
> > vhostuser config work, so anything that might be gating this please let
> > me know and I'll work on it.
> > 
> 
> Please remember to add "vhost-sock-dir" to the database,
> even if there will be used the default directory (no command line value).

I'm nervous about adding unrestricted directory names to the database,
because they could allow a remote database user to write to arbitrary
places in the file system.