From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] cr: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:51:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610125145.GA12204@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0906102219230.24923@tundra.namei.org>
Quoting James Morris (jmorris@namei.org):
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> > When restarting tasks, we want to be able to change xuid and
> > xgid in a struct cred, and do so with security checks. Break
> > the core functionality of set{fs,res}{u,g}id into cred_setX
> > which performs the access checks based on current_cred(),
> > but performs the requested change on a passed-in cred.
> >
>
> Please cc the lsm list when making changes to security.
Argh, they were cc:d on my last version, and I was sure I'd
put them in the list of headers for this set.
FWIW, the thread can be seen here
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018509.html
thanks,
-serge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-10 1:44 [PATCH 01/10] cred: #include init.h in cred.h Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20090610014412.GA5628-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-10 1:44 ` [PATCH 02/10] groups: move code to kernel/groups.c Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:44 ` [PATCH 03/10] cr: break out new_user_ns() Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:44 ` [PATCH 04/10] cr: split core function out of some set*{u,g}id functions Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20090610014456.GC5658-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-10 12:20 ` James Morris
2009-06-10 12:51 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2009-06-10 1:45 ` [PATCH 05/10] cr: ipc: reset kern_ipc_perms Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:45 ` [PATCH 06/10] cr: capabilities: define checkpoint and restore fns Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:46 ` [PATCH 07/10] cr: checkpoint and restore task credentials Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:46 ` [PATCH 08/10] cr: restore file->f_cred Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:46 ` [PATCH 09/10] cr: restore LSM credentials Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20090610014637.GH5658-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-10 3:24 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-06-10 13:54 ` Stephen Smalley
[not found] ` <1244642042.20265.143.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-10 14:59 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 1:47 ` [PATCH 10/10] cr: lsm: restore file->f_security Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20090610014704.GI5658-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-10 3:39 ` Casey Schaufler
[not found] ` <4A2F2B08.40701-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
2009-06-10 13:58 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-06-10 13:54 ` Stephen Smalley
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