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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] Allow unprivileged chroot when safe
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:35:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209093504.GA19507@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrX6xRCvkHBz0TKVxffgOFRfvnb7ZbmyiN3zruwgBXjhKw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 14:51 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That's neat!  CLONE_NEWPID might be safe with no_new_privs, too.
> Unprivileged CLONE_NEWPID would also be a nice, straightforward way to
> start up a process hierarchy and then reliably kill the whole thing
> when you're done with it.

It worth checking whether creating HUGE number or pid namespaces is
able to lock down the system for a significant period of time.  E.g.
triggering thousands of pid_ns enumeration under a spinlock.

The same with every "enable this privileged feature to unprivileged
users under certain circumstances" step.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	keescook@chromium.org, john.johansen@canonical.com,
	serge.hallyn@canonical.com, coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	pmoore@redhat.com, eparis@redhat.com, djm@mindrot.org,
	jmorris@namei.org, scarybeasts@gmail.com, avi@redhat.com,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mingo@elte.hu,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, khilman@ti.com,
	borislav.petkov@amd.com, amwang@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	ak@linux.intel.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de,
	dhowells@redhat.com, daniel.lezcano@free.fr,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, olofj@chromium.org,
	mhalcrow@google.com, dlaor@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] Allow unprivileged chroot when safe
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:35:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209093504.GA19507@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrX6xRCvkHBz0TKVxffgOFRfvnb7ZbmyiN3zruwgBXjhKw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 14:51 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That's neat!  CLONE_NEWPID might be safe with no_new_privs, too.
> Unprivileged CLONE_NEWPID would also be a nice, straightforward way to
> start up a process hierarchy and then reliably kill the whole thing
> when you're done with it.

It worth checking whether creating HUGE number or pid namespaces is
able to lock down the system for a significant period of time.  E.g.
triggering thousands of pid_ns enumeration under a spinlock.

The same with every "enable this privileged feature to unprivileged
users under certain circumstances" step.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 16:17 [PATCH v3 0/4] PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, unshare, and chroot Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve from granting privs Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-02-01 18:14   ` Kees Cook
2012-02-01 18:14     ` Kees Cook
2012-01-30 16:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] Fix apparmor for PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] Allow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUTS and CLONE_NEWIPC with no_new_privs Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-02-01 19:02   ` Kees Cook
2012-02-01 19:02     ` Kees Cook
2012-02-01 20:35     ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-02-01 20:35       ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] Allow unprivileged chroot when safe Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 16:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 21:58   ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 21:58     ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 22:10     ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:10       ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:41       ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 22:41         ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 22:43         ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:43           ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 23:10           ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 23:10             ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 23:15             ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 23:15               ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 23:55               ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 23:55                 ` Colin Walters
2012-01-31  0:13                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-31  0:13                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:18     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-30 22:18       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-30 22:28       ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:28         ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:38       ` Will Drewry
2012-01-30 22:38         ` Will Drewry
2012-01-30 22:48         ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 22:48           ` Colin Walters
2012-01-30 22:51         ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-01-30 22:51           ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-02-09  9:35           ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2012-02-09  9:35             ` Vasiliy Kulikov

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