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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:35:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110715053505.GA24870@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110715133013.4fa38d19@notabene.brown>

Hi Neil,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:30:13PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
(...)
> But what do you think of this.  It sure that only the process which ignored
> the return value from setuid is inconvenienced.
(...)

I think this is a smart idea. But will the flag be inherited by children
over a fork() ? If not, we might as well block fork(), because we can
expect a lot of fork+exec situations which are as dangerous as the simple
execve().

Regards,
Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-12 13:09 RLIMIT_NPROC check in set_user() Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-06 17:36 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-06 18:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-06 18:59     ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-07  7:56       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-07  8:19         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-12 13:27           ` [PATCH] move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-12 21:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-12 23:14               ` NeilBrown
2011-07-13  6:31                 ` Solar Designer
2011-07-13  7:06                   ` NeilBrown
2011-07-13 20:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-14  0:11                       ` James Morris
2011-07-14  1:27                         ` NeilBrown
2011-07-14 15:06                           ` Solar Designer
2011-07-15  3:30                             ` NeilBrown
2011-07-15  5:35                               ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2011-07-15  6:31                               ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-15  7:06                                 ` NeilBrown
2011-07-15  7:38                                   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-15 13:04                                     ` Solar Designer
2011-07-15 13:58                                     ` [kernel-hardening] " Stephen Smalley
2011-07-15 15:26                                       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-15 19:54                                         ` Stephen Smalley
2011-07-21  4:09                                           ` NeilBrown
2011-07-21 12:48                                             ` Solar Designer
2011-07-21 18:21                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-21 19:39                                                 ` [kernel-hardening] " Solar Designer
2011-07-25 17:14                                                   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-25 23:40                                                     ` [kernel-hardening] " Solar Designer
2011-07-26  0:47                                                       ` NeilBrown
2011-07-26  1:16                                                         ` Solar Designer
2011-07-26  4:11                                                           ` NeilBrown
2011-07-26 14:48                                                             ` [patch v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-27  2:15                                                               ` NeilBrown
2011-07-29  7:07                                                                 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-29  8:06                                                               ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-29  8:11                                                                 ` [patch v3] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-29  8:17                                                                   ` James Morris
2011-07-14  1:30                         ` [PATCH] " KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-07-13  5:36             ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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