From: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 01/15] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve from granting privs
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:03:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABqD9hbTWQ6uBn_jZ7WdbaAMtAcTHz3hWSer_tnAFU9iV-4GSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120406125517.77133b4e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:01:46 -0500
> Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
>>
>> With this set, a lot of dangerous operations (chroot, unshare, etc)
>> become a lot less dangerous because there is no possibility of
>> subverting privileged binaries.
>
> The changelog doesn't explain the semantics of the new syscall.
> There's a comment way-down-there which I guess suffices, if you hunt
> for it.
I'll bubble up luto's comment into the changelog when I resend the
grand-unified-patchset.
> And the changelog doesn't explain why this is being added. Presumably
> seccomp_filter wants/needs this feature but whowhatwherewhenwhy? Spell
> it all out, please.
I'll try my hand at that and luto@ can yell at me if I misrepresent.
Seem reasonable?
> The new syscall mode will be documented in the prctl manpage. Please
> cc linux-man@vger.kernel.org and work with Michael on getting this
> done?
I'll add linux-man to the patch series since this applies to both
no_new_privs and seccomp filter.
Thanks!
>>
>> ...
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 20:01 [PATCH v17 00/15] seccomp_filter: BPF-based syscall filtering Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 01/15] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve from granting privs Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 19:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 19:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-04-06 19:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-04-06 20:47 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-06 20:47 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-06 20:54 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-06 20:54 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-06 21:04 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-06 21:04 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-06 21:15 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-06 21:15 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-06 21:32 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-06 21:32 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-10 19:12 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-10 19:12 ` Will Drewry
[not found] ` <1333051320-30872-2-git-send-email-wad-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-06 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 20:01 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-06 20:01 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-06 20:28 ` Jonathan Corbet
2012-04-06 20:28 ` Jonathan Corbet
2012-04-06 20:37 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-11 19:31 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-04-12 0:15 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-04-12 0:50 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-04-16 19:11 ` Rob Landley
2012-04-16 19:11 ` Rob Landley
2012-04-10 20:37 ` Rob Landley
2012-04-10 20:37 ` Rob Landley
2012-04-10 19:03 ` Will Drewry [this message]
2012-04-10 19:03 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 02/15] Fix apparmor for PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 03/15] sk_run_filter: add BPF_S_ANC_SECCOMP_LD_W Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 04/15] net/compat.c,linux/filter.h: share compat_sock_fprog Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 05/15] seccomp: kill the seccomp_t typedef Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 06/15] arch/x86: add syscall_get_arch to syscall.h Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 07/15] asm/syscall.h: add syscall_get_arch Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 20:05 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 19:24 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 19:24 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 08/15] seccomp: add system call filtering using BPF Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-31 4:40 ` Vladimir Murzin
2012-03-31 18:14 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-31 18:14 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 20:23 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 20:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-06 20:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-06 21:05 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-06 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-06 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-08 18:22 ` Indan Zupancic
2012-04-08 18:22 ` Indan Zupancic
2012-04-09 19:59 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 19:59 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-10 9:48 ` James Morris
2012-04-10 9:48 ` James Morris
2012-04-10 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-10 20:16 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-10 20:16 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-10 10:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10 10:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-10 20:15 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-10 20:15 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 09/15] seccomp: remove duplicated failure logging Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 19:26 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 19:26 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 19:32 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-09 19:32 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-09 19:33 ` Eric Paris
2012-04-09 19:33 ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric Paris
2012-04-09 19:39 ` Kees Cook
2012-04-09 19:39 ` Kees Cook
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 10/15] seccomp: add SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 19:19 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 11/15] signal, x86: add SIGSYS info and make it synchronous Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 12/15] seccomp: Add SECCOMP_RET_TRAP Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 13/15] ptrace,seccomp: Add PTRACE_SECCOMP support Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 19:38 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 19:38 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v17 14/15] x86: Enable HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:01 ` Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:02 ` [PATCH v17 15/15] Documentation: prctl/seccomp_filter Will Drewry
2012-03-29 20:02 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-06 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 19:46 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 19:46 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 20:47 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-09 20:47 ` Markus Gutschke
2012-04-09 20:58 ` Ryan Ware
2012-04-09 20:58 ` Ryan Ware
2012-04-09 22:47 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-09 22:47 ` Will Drewry
2012-04-10 17:49 ` Ryan Ware
2012-04-10 17:49 ` Ryan Ware
2012-03-29 23:11 ` [PATCH v17 00/15] seccomp_filter: BPF-based syscall filtering James Morris
2012-03-29 23:11 ` James Morris
2012-04-06 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 3:48 ` James Morris
2012-04-09 3:48 ` James Morris
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