From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SE Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Schaufler, Casey" <casey.schaufler@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] LSM: Blob sharing support for S.A.R.A and LandLock
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:06:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5j+PhwfRCg5PycrE-JReVxKMduGsoXStWZN6PfYB-NB1og@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2ffa6b7-5d05-39a1-11c3-d715566e4d51@schaufler-ca.com>
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2018 4:51 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> So, before we can really make a decision, I think we have to decide:
>> should ordering be arbitrary for even this level of stacking?
>
> Do we have a case where it matters? I know that I could write a
> module that would have issues if one hook got called and another
> didn't because because a precursor module hook failed. I don't
> think that any of the existing modules have this problem.
FWIW, I prefer having explicit ordering that cannot be changed at
runtime. I'm just concerned about painting ourselves (further) into a
corner with security= suddenly gaining ordering semantics, but maybe I
can just ignore this and we can point and laugh at anyone who gets
burned by some future change to making it order-sensitive. :)
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-11 16:26 [PATCH v2 00/10] LSM: Module stacking in support of S.A.R.A and Landlock Casey Schaufler
2018-09-11 16:41 ` [PATCH 01/10] procfs: add smack subdir to attrs Casey Schaufler
2018-09-12 22:57 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:41 ` [PATCH 02/10] Smack: Abstract use of cred security blob Casey Schaufler
2018-09-12 23:04 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:41 ` [PATCH 03/10] SELinux: " Casey Schaufler
2018-09-12 23:10 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:41 ` [PATCH 04/10] LSM: Infrastructure management of the " Casey Schaufler
2018-09-12 23:53 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 19:01 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 21:12 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:41 ` [PATCH 05/10] SELinux: Abstract use of file " Casey Schaufler
2018-09-12 23:54 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:42 ` [PATCH 06/10] LSM: Infrastructure management of the " Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 0:00 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:42 ` [PATCH 07/10] SELinux: Abstract use of inode " Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 0:23 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:42 ` [PATCH 08/10] Smack: " Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 0:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:42 ` [PATCH 09/10] LSM: Infrastructure management of the inode security Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 0:30 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-11 16:42 ` [PATCH 10/10] LSM: Blob sharing support for S.A.R.A and LandLock Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 4:19 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 13:16 ` Paul Moore
2018-09-13 15:19 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 19:12 ` Paul Moore
2018-09-13 20:58 ` Jordan Glover
2018-09-13 21:50 ` Paul Moore
2018-09-13 22:04 ` Jordan Glover
2018-09-13 23:01 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 21:01 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 21:38 ` Paul Moore
2018-09-13 21:51 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 23:06 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 23:32 ` John Johansen
2018-09-13 23:51 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-14 0:03 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-14 0:06 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2018-09-13 23:51 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-13 23:57 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-14 0:08 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-14 0:19 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-14 15:57 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-14 20:05 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-14 20:47 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-14 18:18 ` James Morris
2018-09-14 18:23 ` John Johansen
2018-09-14 0:03 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-14 2:42 ` Paul Moore
2018-09-11 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] LSM: Module stacking in support of S.A.R.A and Landlock James Morris
2018-09-12 21:29 ` James Morris
2018-09-16 16:54 ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2018-09-16 17:25 ` Casey Schaufler
2018-09-16 17:45 ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2018-09-18 7:44 ` Mickaël Salaün
2018-09-18 15:23 ` Casey Schaufler
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