From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH PLACEHOLDER 1/3] fs/exec: "always_unprivileged" patch
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:12:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18vl5900m.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABqD9haumYV6SizAXeR9Os69QgYEkW6fBC27dAYhOr-8U=p6_A@mail.gmail.com> (Will Drewry's message of "Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:04:13 -0600")
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> writes:
> One consideration could be to add do_exit()s at known DAC transitions
> (set*id, fcaps). I don't know if that'd be wise, but it would remove
> some described ambiguity. The same could be done with exec when the
> (e)uid/gid/fcaps change. However, none of that helps with the opaque
> LSM data, so that'd have to be left up to the LSMs and the LSM_* flag
> you've added.
I went through and audited userspace recently and I could not find
anything that did not handle setuid failing. It looks like kernel
developers are not the only ones who learned from the
sendmail/capabilities problem.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-18 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 23:38 [PATCH PLACEHOLDER 1/3] fs/exec: "always_unprivileged" patch Will Drewry
2012-01-12 23:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] seccomp_filters: system call filtering using BPF Will Drewry
2012-01-13 0:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-12 23:59 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-13 1:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-13 17:39 ` Eric Paris
2012-01-13 18:50 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-12 23:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: prctl/seccomp_filter Will Drewry
2012-01-15 1:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2012-01-16 1:41 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-17 23:29 ` Eric Paris
2012-01-17 23:54 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-12 23:47 ` [PATCH PLACEHOLDER 1/3] fs/exec: "always_unprivileged" patch Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 0:03 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-13 0:42 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-13 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 1:11 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-13 1:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 13:30 ` Jamie Lokier
2012-01-14 19:21 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-14 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 21:04 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-15 20:16 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-01-15 20:59 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-15 21:32 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-01-15 22:07 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-16 2:04 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-18 3:12 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2012-01-16 2:41 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-01-16 7:45 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-16 18:02 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-01-13 1:37 ` Will Drewry
2012-01-13 1:41 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-01-13 2:09 ` Kees Cook
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