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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] kernfs: initialize security of newly created nodes
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:09:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190130170911.GZ50184@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190130114150.27807-6-omosnace@redhat.com>

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:41:50PM +0100, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> @@ -673,6 +698,12 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root,
>  			goto err_out3;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (parent) {
> +		ret = kernfs_node_init_security(parent, kn);
> +		if (ret)
> +			goto err_out3;
> +	}

So, doing this unconditionally isn't a good idea.  kernfs doesn't use
the usual dentry/inode because there are machines with 6, even 7 digit
number of kernfs nodes and some of them even failed to boot due to
memory shortage.  Please don't blow it up by default.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30 11:41 [PATCH v3 0/5] Allow initializing the kernfs node's secctx based on its parent Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] selinux: try security xattr after genfs for kernfs filesystems Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] kernfs: use simple_xattrs for security attributes Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] selinux: implement the kernfs_init_security hook Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-30 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] kernfs: initialize security of newly created nodes Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-30 17:09   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-01-31 10:20     ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-01-31 14:22       ` Tejun Heo
2019-01-31 16:39       ` Casey Schaufler
2019-02-04  9:48         ` Ondrej Mosnacek

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