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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>,
	Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:19:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101117061956.GD32484@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgb96oJCrF-5sBPMUTiNPbCMEGUkuGxAJ=g-Mx@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:58:44PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So I do think that it's worth closing these "small" holes. Anything
> that makes it more work to attack really _is_ improving things.

We must keep in mind that anything which requires more work as root
for common administration opens new holes. I don't think it's the
case for kallsyms, but I mean we should not try to lock too hard,
otherwise everyone will have a sudoers entry to do his work, and
that's even worse than current situation.

Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 10:46 [PATCH] kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking Marcus Meissner
2010-11-17  5:07 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-11-18  7:48   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-20  3:18     ` Kees Cook
2010-11-26  7:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-17  5:40 ` Kyle Moffett
2010-11-17  5:41   ` Kyle Moffett
2010-11-17  5:58   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-17  6:19     ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2010-11-18  7:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-23 17:24     ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-26  7:38       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-29 19:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-20 11:32   ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-19 19:19 ` Sarah Sharp
2010-11-19 19:54   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-19 19:58     ` david
2010-11-19 20:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-19 20:16         ` Willy Tarreau
2010-11-19 20:55           ` david
2010-11-26  7:48     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-29 16:33       ` Sarah Sharp
2010-11-29 18:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-29 19:05           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-29 19:21             ` Eric Paris
2010-11-29 19:38               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-29 21:49             ` Willy Tarreau
2010-11-29 23:31         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-30 11:58           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-20 11:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-19 21:12 Andy Walls
2010-11-19 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-20  2:40   ` Kees Cook
2010-11-20 19:47     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-11-29 22:58       ` Kevin Easton
2010-11-04 10:09 Marcus Meissner
2010-11-04 10:11 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-04 11:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-04 12:29   ` Marcus Meissner
2010-11-04 13:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-04 14:11       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-04 14:33         ` Marcus Meissner
2010-11-04 14:38           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-04 14:43             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-04 14:48               ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-04 19:08           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-07 18:02           ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-07 18:32             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-10  8:53               ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-11  2:51                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-11-11  7:05                   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-05  2:38     ` Frank Rowand
2010-11-10 20:58       ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-05  0:20 ` Jesper Juhl

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