From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>
Cc: security@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [Security] [PATCH] proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905041159480.4983@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504125114.5e391564@chukar>
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jake Edge wrote:
>
> This is essentially v2 of "[PATCH] proc: avoid leaking eip, esp, or
> wchan to non-privileged processes", adding some of Eric Biederman's
> suggestions as well as the start_stack change (only give out that
> address if the process is ptrace()-able). This has been tested with ps
> and top without any ill effects being seen.
Looks sane to me. Anybody objects?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 18:51 [PATCH] proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes Jake Edge
2009-05-04 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-05-04 19:51 ` [Security] " Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-04 20:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-04 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-04 23:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-04 23:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-05 7:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-05 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-05 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-05 16:18 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-05 16:10 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-05 5:50 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-05 6:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-05 8:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-05 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-05 20:22 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-05 21:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-06 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 16:25 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-06 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-06 17:57 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-07 0:50 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-07 15:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 18:14 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-07 18:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 18:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-07 19:24 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-07 15:16 ` Florian Weimer
2009-05-07 16:55 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-07 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-07 18:42 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-06 20:09 ` [patch] random: make get_random_int() more random Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 20:41 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-06 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 21:10 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-06 21:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-14 22:47 ` Jake Edge
2009-05-14 22:55 ` [Security] " Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15 13:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-15 15:10 ` Jake Edge
2009-05-16 10:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-05-16 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-16 12:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-16 14:00 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-16 14:28 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-16 14:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-16 15:09 ` Michael S. Zick
2009-05-16 14:32 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-16 13:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-05-16 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-16 15:47 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-05-16 15:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-16 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-16 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15 1:16 ` Américo Wang
2009-05-06 20:25 ` [Security] [PATCH] proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 20:52 ` Matt Mackall
2009-05-05 8:58 ` Andi Kleen
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