From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>,
kpsingh@kernel.org, revest@chromium.org, jackmanb@chromium.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce security_create_user_ns()
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:43:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bksu8qs2.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d3ia65v.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:26:04 -0500")
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> writes:
> Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> writes:
>
>>> I did provide constructive feedback. My feedback to his problem
>>> was to address the real problem of bugs in the kernel.
>>
>> We've heard from several people who have use cases which require
>> adding LSM-level access controls and observability to user namespace
>> creation. This is the problem we are trying to solve here; if you do
>> not like the approach proposed in this patchset please suggest another
>> implementation that allows LSMs visibility into user namespace
>> creation.
>
> Please stop, ignoring my feedback, not detailing what problem or
> problems you are actually trying to be solved, and threatening to merge
> code into files that I maintain that has the express purpose of breaking
> my users.
>
> You just artificially constrained the problems, so that no other
> solution is acceptable. On that basis alone I am object to this whole
> approach to steam roll over me and my code.
If you want an example of what kind of harm it can cause to introduce a
failure where no failure was before I invite you to look at what
happened with sendmail when setuid was modified to fail, when changing
the user of a process would cause RLIMIT_NPROC to be exceeded.
I am not arguing that what you are proposing is that bad but unexpected
failures cause real problems, and at a minimum that needs a better
response than: "There is at least one user that wants a failure here".
Frankly I would love to see an argument that semantically it ever makes
sense for creating a user namespace to fail. If that argument has
already been made, my apologies to the person who made as I missed it,
in being sick and tired, and frustrated at being blown off, when
I asked for a proper discuss of the problem at hand.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-08 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-01 18:01 [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce security_create_user_ns() Frederick Lawler
2022-08-01 18:01 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] security, lsm: " Frederick Lawler
2022-08-02 21:47 ` KP Singh
2022-08-03 13:13 ` Frederick Lawler
2022-08-01 18:01 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] bpf-lsm: Make bpf_lsm_userns_create() sleepable Frederick Lawler
2022-08-01 23:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-01 23:06 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-02 21:29 ` KP Singh
2022-08-01 18:01 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] selftests/bpf: Add tests verifying bpf lsm userns_create hook Frederick Lawler
2022-08-02 22:08 ` KP Singh
2022-08-01 18:01 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] selinux: Implement " Frederick Lawler
2022-08-02 2:56 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce security_create_user_ns() Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-03 2:10 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-08 18:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-08 19:16 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-08 19:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-08 19:43 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2022-08-08 22:47 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-09 16:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-09 16:47 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-09 21:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-09 22:40 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-10 0:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-09 17:43 ` Casey Schaufler
2022-08-09 21:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-08 19:49 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-09 16:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-08-14 15:55 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2022-08-15 2:32 ` Paul Moore
2022-08-15 15:41 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2022-08-15 16:24 ` Paul Moore
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