From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ptrace: add PTRACE_GETFD request
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 20:05:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez07Ne7tCM_TSLcZV0ZCceMYpzwV9WPPtzosic5KGiATvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez23UZYRytSNYd74pZuCXPXtOQjZeixP18CL0XZEz-NP0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 8:05 PM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 8:03 PM Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 6:10 AM Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 11:44:53PM +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> > > > take action on an FD on behalf of the tracee. For example, this
> > > > can be combined with seccomp's user notification feature to extract
> > > > a file descriptor and call privileged syscalls, like binding
> > > > a socket to a privileged port.
> > >
> > > This can already be accomplished via injecting parasite code like CRIU
> > > does; adding a ptrace() command like this makes it much nicer to be
> > > sure, but it is redundant.
> > >
> > How can you do this if the tracee doesn't have privilege? For example,
> > if the tracee doesn't have CAP_SYS_BIND_SERVICE, how could you
> > get it to bind to a port that's privileged without taking the file descriptor
> > and doing it in a process that does have CAP_SYS_BIND_SERVICE?
>
> (You can let the parasite send the fd to the tracer via
> SCM_CREDENTIALS if you have previously set up a unix domain socket for
> this.)
Eh, sorry, of course I meant SCM_RIGHTS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-06 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 23:44 [RFC PATCH] ptrace: add PTRACE_GETFD request Sargun Dhillon
2019-12-06 2:38 ` Jann Horn
2019-12-06 6:16 ` Sargun Dhillon
2019-12-06 6:52 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-12-06 8:25 ` Christian Brauner
2019-12-06 12:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-12-06 14:10 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-12-06 19:03 ` Sargun Dhillon
2019-12-06 19:05 ` Jann Horn
2019-12-06 19:05 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2019-12-06 20:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
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