From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
jmorris@namei.org, spender@grsecurity.net, dwalsh@redhat.com,
cl@linux-foundation.org, arjan@infradead.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
cpardy@redhat.com, arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] VM/SELinux: require CAP_SYS_RAWIO for all mmap_zero operations
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:06:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090729150612.GF1534@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090721163813.0cb5d7ab@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue 2009-07-21 16:38:13, Alan Cox wrote:
> > turns it off for the whole system when you install WINE. This patch
> > doesn't change that fact. All it does is add that requirement to
> > SELinux systems that already exists on non-selinux systems.
>
> Prior to this an SELinux system could implement sensible security. The
> fact Fedora didn't was paranoia and fear over a bad experience made what
> five years ago ?
OTOH enabling selinux previously only taken your rights away... which
is not the case with min_mmap_addr. Making it consistent seems useful.
Pavel
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 14:41 [PATCH 1/2] VM/SELinux: require CAP_SYS_RAWIO for all mmap_zero operations Eric Paris
2009-07-21 14:41 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] SELinux: selinux_file_mmap always enforce mapping the 0 page Eric Paris
2009-07-21 14:42 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 15:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] VM/SELinux: require CAP_SYS_RAWIO for all mmap_zero operations Alan Cox
2009-07-21 15:18 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 15:18 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 15:38 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-21 15:57 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 15:57 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 16:09 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-21 16:23 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 16:23 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-21 16:30 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-29 15:06 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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