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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: avoid directory traversal (was: ip netns: Make sure netns name is sane)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:12:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170718171230.084c804e@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170710120831.9355-1-mcroce@redhat.com>

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:08:31 +0200
Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> 
> I noticed that your patch still leaves an uncovered scenario, the one where the
> namespace name is "." or "..".
> Calling 'ip netns del ..' will remove /var/run which is a symlink to /run on
> most systems causing some daemons, eg. dbus, to fail.
> 
> ip netns doesn't validate input, allowing creation and deletion of files
> relatives to /var/run/netns.
> This patch denies creation or deletion of namespaces with names contaning
> "/" or that matches exactly "." or "..".
> ---
>  ip/ipnetns.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 

The patch itself is good, but the commit message needs fixing.
Please rewrite it to describe the problem, and add signed-off-by

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-19  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-10 12:08 [PATCH] netns: avoid directory traversal (was: ip netns: Make sure netns name is sane) Matteo Croce
2017-07-10 13:07 ` Phil Sutter
2017-07-19  0:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-07-19 22:36   ` [PATCH v2] " Matteo Croce
2017-07-20  7:44     ` Phil Sutter
2017-07-21  0:25     ` Stephen Hemminger

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