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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Jann Horn" <jann@thejh.net>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"Robert Święcki" <robert@swiecki.net>,
	"Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@google.com>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Miklos Szeredi" <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
	"Kostya Serebryany" <kcc@google.com>,
	"Alexander Potapenko" <glider@google.com>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Sasha Levin" <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: expand use of proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:43:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160124014342.GW17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvrvwz72.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 07:20:17PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Yep.  That is about the size of it.  file * used to be passed to the
> sysctl methods but it was removed several years ago because no one was
> using it.

Generally cred would be better...  Alternatively we could eat one more
pointer in task_struct and stash a reference to that sucker there, rather
than adding an explicit argument (again, with cred instead of file).
Not sure...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-24  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-22 22:39 [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 0/2] sysctl: allow CLONE_NEWUSER to be disabled Kees Cook
2016-01-22 22:39 ` [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: expand use of proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin Kees Cook
2016-01-23  3:10   ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-23 22:25     ` Jann Horn
2016-01-24  1:20       ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-24  1:43         ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-01-24  1:56           ` Jann Horn
2016-01-24  6:02             ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-24  6:32               ` Jann Horn
2016-01-24  6:44                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-22 22:39 ` [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: allow CLONE_NEWUSER to be disabled Kees Cook
2016-01-22 22:47   ` [kernel-hardening] " Robert Święcki
2016-01-22 22:50     ` Kees Cook
2016-01-22 22:55       ` Robert Święcki
2016-01-22 23:00         ` Kees Cook
2016-01-23  0:44           ` Serge Hallyn
2016-01-23  0:44           ` Serge Hallyn
2016-01-23  0:59           ` Ben Hutchings
2016-01-24 20:59             ` Kees Cook
2016-01-24 22:20               ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-25 18:51                 ` Kees Cook
2016-01-22 22:49 ` [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 0/2] " Richard Weinberger
2016-01-23  3:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-24 20:57   ` Kees Cook
2016-01-26  7:38     ` Serge Hallyn
2016-01-24 22:22   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-25 18:51     ` Kees Cook
2016-01-25 18:53       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-25 18:56         ` Kees Cook
2016-01-25 19:33           ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-25 22:34             ` Kees Cook
2016-01-25 23:33               ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-26  2:27               ` Daniel Micay
2016-01-26  4:57               ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-26 14:38                 ` Josh Boyer
2016-01-26 14:46                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-26 14:56                     ` Josh Boyer
2016-01-26 17:20                       ` Serge Hallyn
2016-01-26 19:56                         ` Josh Boyer
2016-01-26 20:11                           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-26 17:15                   ` Serge Hallyn
2016-01-26 18:09                     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-26 18:27                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-26 18:45                         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-26 23:15                         ` Kees Cook
2016-01-26 23:13                     ` Kees Cook
2016-01-27 10:27                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-27 12:32                         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-28 14:41                         ` Robert Święcki
2016-01-26 23:47                     ` Josh Boyer
2016-01-26 16:37                 ` Kees Cook
2016-01-28  8:56                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-01-28 12:53                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn

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