From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, andros@citi.umich.edu,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Re: NFS4 crack
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050919190506.GA28106@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050919190117.GB26122@fieldses.org>
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:01:17PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > because we don't do it today. I have a system that has highly customized
> > > file names, so I'm pretty familiar with all the world's hardcoded file
> > > names. ISTR the Linux kernel hardcodes /sbin/init, /bin/sh, and
> > > /sbin/modprobe.
> >
> > They are not nice, but quite a bit different, as we are trying to execute
> > them, which can't have bad side-effects in case they don't exist.
>
> What bad side-effects are you thinking of here?
Sorry s/don't exist/& as expected/
think of your directory as symlink to something important, you'll just
mess with it confuse nfsd, whipe parts out. All kinds of nasty things
can happen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-19 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-18 10:21 NFS4 crack Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-18 14:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 10:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 13:04 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-19 13:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 13:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 14:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 17:13 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 17:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-19 21:57 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 22:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-20 0:17 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 18:53 ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-09-19 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 22:04 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 19:01 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 19:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-09-19 20:31 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-20 12:49 ` Greg KH
2005-09-20 15:10 ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-09-20 18:37 ` Neil Brown
2005-09-21 7:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-22 20:58 ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-09-21 13:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-21 14:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-22 16:28 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-22 16:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-22 17:38 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-22 17:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-22 18:07 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-22 21:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-23 12:17 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-23 20:50 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-23 21:02 ` NFS4 crack\ Al Viro
2005-09-26 16:29 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-26 17:13 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-22 21:48 ` NFS4 crack Nicholas Miell
2005-09-22 22:50 ` Greg Banks
2005-09-22 21:19 ` Bryan Henderson
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