From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PING^7 (was Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542))
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519C959A.3090100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130522093249.GC3466@mtj.dyndns.org>
Il 22/05/2013 11:32, Tejun Heo ha scritto:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:35:54AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I'm not sure what is more ridiculous, whether the seven pings or the
>> lack of review...
>
> So, ummm, I don't know what Jens is thinking but at this point I'm
> basically waiting for someone else to pick it up as review to return
> ratio is too low to continue. It doesn't seem like I can get the
> series into a shape I can ack with reasonable amount of effort.
Then please say so. I didn't find any comment in your review that I missed.
> My memory is kinda hazy now but here are two review points that came
> to my mind before giving up.
>
> * The response that I got after asking for justification basically
> boiled down to "it has to". Whatever that means.
For patches 1-4, it means that you're allowed to write to media when a
file is opened for reading. The patches fix this.
For patches 5-12, it means that you currently need root-equivalent
privileges (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) to do "regular business" on any SCSI device
that is not a CD-ROM or a tape or a disk.
For patches 13-14, it means that you currently need root-equivalent
privileges (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) to do operations on SCSI devices that require
some level of trust, hence there is no way to confine this to a single
device.
But all this is in the cover letter, I'm just paraphrasing.
> * In the patch series, fixes and feature changes are still mixed in
> order. I gave up after this.
Bugfixes are in patch 1-4. The patches first introduce the new table
format without any semantic change, then they introduce per-class
filters while still leaving the conflicting commands accessible with
O_RDONLY, and finally fix the bug. If you have any better ideas, please
tell me. I did try to optimize for reviewability and bisectability, if
I screwed up I'd like to hear why.
Whitelisting of extra commands is in patch 5-10. Additional related
changes are in patches 11-14.
Again, all this is in the cover letter.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-06 15:15 [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542) Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] sg_io: pass request_queue to blk_verify_command Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] sg_io: reorganize list of allowed commands Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] sg_io: use different default filters for each device class Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] sg_io: resolve conflicts between commands assigned to multiple classes (CVE-2012-4542) Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for rare & obsolete device types Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] sg_io: whitelist another command for multimedia devices Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for media changers Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for tapes Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for disks Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] sg_io: whitelist a few obsolete commands Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] sg_io: mark blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults as __init Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] sg_io: remove remnants of sysfs SG_IO filters Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:16 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] sg_io: introduce unpriv_sgio queue flag Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:16 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] sg_io: use unpriv_sgio to disable whitelisting for scanners Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 8:32 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542) Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 15:35 ` Douglas Gilbert
2013-02-13 15:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-20 16:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-22 22:30 ` PING^2 " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-04 18:18 ` PING^3 " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-17 12:26 ` PING^4 aka The Jon Corbet Effect " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-27 13:31 ` PING^5 aka New ways to attract attentions " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 20:43 ` PING^6 " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 6:35 ` PING^7 (was Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542)) Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 9:32 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 9:53 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-05-22 10:02 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 10:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 12:07 ` James Bottomley
2013-05-22 14:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 16:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 13:41 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 14:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 14:30 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 15:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 19:30 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 21:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 22:17 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-23 0:54 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-23 7:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-23 9:02 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-23 9:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 1:44 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-24 7:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 8:02 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-24 8:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 9:07 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-24 9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 22:20 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-25 4:35 ` James Bottomley
2013-05-25 5:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-25 7:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-25 7:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-25 7:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-21 11:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-25 8:37 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-25 11:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-25 12:48 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-25 12:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 15:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 15:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 16:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-05-22 17:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 18:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 19:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 20:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 20:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-25 3:54 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2013-05-28 20:25 ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-05-29 6:12 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2013-05-22 20:39 ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 21:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
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