From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH 1/2] seccomp_filters: system call filtering using BPF Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:17:54 -0500 Message-ID: <1326388674.7642.103.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> References: <1326302710-9427-1-git-send-email-wad@chromium.org> <1326302710-9427-2-git-send-email-wad@chromium.org> <1326383015.7642.77.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <1326385635.7642.89.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Lutomirski , Will Drewry , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, john.johansen@canonical.com, serge.hallyn@canonical.com, coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pmoore@redhat.com, eparis@redhat.com, djm@mindrot.org, segoon@openwall.com, jmorris@namei.org, scarybeasts@gmail.com, avi@redhat.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, khilman@ti.com, borislav.petkov@amd.com, amwang@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, dhowells@redhat.com, daniel.lezcano@free.fr, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, olofj@chromium.org, mhalcrow@google.com, dlaor@redhat.com To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-security-module-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The whole "fail security escalations" thing goes way beyond just > filtering, I think we could seriously try to make it a generic > feature. After I wrote this comment I thought the same thing. It would be nice to have a way to just set a flag to a process that will prevent it from doing any escalating of privileges. I totally agree, this would solve a whole host of issues with regard to security issues in things that shouldn't be a problem but currently are. -- Steve