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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zenczykowski@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bazsi@balabit.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: change capability used by socket options IP{,V6}_TRANSPARENT
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111020.003458.1034042223691970343.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHo-OoxYiqSOg6fPWWAaocF2L3DzyV_UFYT0CPRGVd7LNxDCwg@mail.gmail.com>

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:31:06 -0700

>> A process with CAP_NET_RAW can spit whatever crap they want onto the
>> network, and receive all packets with impunity.
> 
> Agreed.  But it can do so via raw sockets, it cannot do so via normal
> udp/tcp/ip sockets.
> That's why I'd like to relax the permissions check on being able to
> switch a socket
> into transparent mode.  A process with CAP_NET_RAW can already pretty
> much emulate
> that behaviour by using raw sockets - it just can't do that using the
> higher level, often more
> usable/useful socket/protocol apis.
> 
>> I can't see what this buys us at all, sorry.
> 
> See above.

Ok, I'm convinced, send me that patch without the warning messages.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30 21:45 IP_TRANSPARENT requires CAP_NET_ADMIN - why? Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-01 21:25 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-02  8:43   ` Balazs Scheidler
2011-09-02 19:10     ` [PATCH] net: change capability used by socket options IP{,V6}_TRANSPARENT Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-13  5:55       ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-13 15:27       ` Balazs Scheidler
2011-09-14  6:45         ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-20 19:42         ` David Miller
2011-10-17 22:16           ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-17 22:19             ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-19 23:34             ` David Miller
2011-10-20  3:32               ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-20  4:19                 ` David Miller
2011-10-20  4:31                   ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-20  4:34                     ` David Miller [this message]
2011-10-20 22:10                       ` [PATCH] net: allow CAP_NET_RAW to set " Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-20 22:22                         ` David Miller
2011-09-22 23:29         ` [PATCH] net: change capability used by " Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-23 14:45           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-09-23 16:36           ` Casey Schaufler
2011-09-23 19:33             ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-09-26 16:31               ` Casey Schaufler

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