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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	Simon Brand <simon.brand@postadigitale.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave@mielke.cc
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 12:41:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202307031240.0B8B07ECD@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230702000022.iozn7lmvy2ihygdc@begin>

On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 02:00:23AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Kees Cook, le mer. 28 juin 2023 09:32:20 -0700, a ecrit:
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 08:07:16AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Kees Cook, le mar. 27 juin 2023 19:48:45 -0700, a ecrit:
> > > > > Really, this a serious regression for the people affected by this.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you send a patch adding a CAP_SYS_ADMIN exception?
> > > 
> > > Sure!
> > 
> > Thanks! (And be sure to use file->f_cred for the check[1], not "current",
> > that way brltty can open the tty and drop caps and still do the ioctl.)
> 
> Actually brltty re-opens the various tty[1-6] consoles when the users
> switches, so I kept just testing capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

Well that's frustrating. :P

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-03 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-22 18:29 [PATCH v3 0/2] tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled Kees Cook
2022-10-22 18:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] tty: Move sysctl setup into "core" tty logic Kees Cook
2022-10-22 18:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] tty: Allow TIOCSTI to be disabled Kees Cook
2022-11-15 13:17   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-12-27 23:40   ` Samuel Thibault
2022-12-27 23:41     ` Samuel Thibault
2022-12-28  3:32     ` Kees Cook
2022-12-28 20:57       ` Samuel Thibault
2023-06-25 15:56         ` Samuel Thibault
2023-06-27 21:50           ` Samuel Thibault
2023-06-28  0:21             ` Paul Moore
2023-06-28  2:48           ` Kees Cook
2023-06-28  6:07             ` Samuel Thibault
2023-06-28 16:32               ` Kees Cook
2023-07-02  0:00                 ` Samuel Thibault
2023-07-03 19:41                   ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-06-29 13:23               ` David Laight
2023-06-29 13:32                 ` Samuel Thibault
2022-11-02  2:15 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Kees Cook
2022-11-02  2:29   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-11-02  2:46     ` Kees Cook

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