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From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] inode: debugfs_create_dir uses mode permission from parent
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:15:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez3WW49fGaNkG4rd7aFB7HXRKe24Yh_w55JWoG3Cz1HN2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180427134936.GA31171@kroah.com>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I'm going to add Kees and the kernel-hardning list here, as I'd like
> their opinions for the patch below.
>
> Kees, do you have any problems with this patch?  I know you worked on
> making debugfs more "secure" from non-root users, this should still keep
> the intial mount permissions all fine, right?  Anything I'm not
> considering here?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:35:47PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote:
>> Currently function debugfs_create_dir() creates a new
>> directory in the debugfs (usually mounted /sys/kernel/debug)
>> with permission rwxr-xr-x. This is hard coded.
>>
>> Change this to use the parent directory permission.

AFAICS no inodes in debugfs have handlers for the ->rename, ->mkdir,
->create inode ops. What is write permission on debugfs directories
useful for?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-30 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-27 12:35 [PATCH v2] debugfs: inode: debugfs_create_dir uses mode permission from parent Thomas Richter
2018-04-27 13:49 ` [PATCH v2] " Greg KH
2018-04-27 14:58   ` Kees Cook
2018-05-02  7:16     ` Thomas-Mich Richter
2018-05-02 14:29       ` Kees Cook
2018-04-30 14:15   ` Jann Horn [this message]
2018-04-30 14:26     ` Greg KH

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