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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon-cxoSlKxDwOJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening-ZwoEplunGu1jrUoiu81ncdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul-bzQdu9zFT3WakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	James Bottomley
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	Cyrill Gorcunov
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	linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Nathan Lynch <ntl-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan
	<adobriyan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org,
	Andrew Morton
	<akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Al Viro <viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v6
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:23:01 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110907112301.GA12157@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110906173341.GM18425-9pTldWuhBndy/B6EtB590w@public.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:33 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:29:52PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > I agree with you.  I don't think that showing system-global debug
> > information to all users by default is the right thing.  But some people
> > doesn't agree with this point of view:
> > 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1108378
> 
> Yeap, I know there are two sides of the discussion but if one takes
> the position that hiding such global debug info is more harmful, it's
> only crazier to hide such information from each individual users of
> the said global facility.  So, let's just forget about information
> leak via freeing or not freeing here.  It's the wrong battle field.

Andrew, are you OK with closing the hole with pid_no_revalidate()
and 0600 /proc/slabinfo?  If so, I feel I have to start this discussion
with people participating in the discussion above: Theodore, Dan, Linus, etc.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-31  7:58 [patch 0/2] Introduce /proc/pid/map_files v6 Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31  7:58 ` [patch 1/2] fs, proc: Make proc_get_link to use dentry instead of inode Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31  7:58 ` [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v6 Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31  9:06   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-31 10:12     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31 11:26     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31 14:04       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-08-31 14:09         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31 14:26         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31 22:10           ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-01  3:07             ` Kyle Moffett
2011-09-01  7:58             ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-09-01 11:50               ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-01 12:13                 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-09-01 17:13                   ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-02 19:15                     ` Matt Helsley
2011-09-02  0:09               ` Matt Helsley
2011-09-01  8:05             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-02 16:37               ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-05 18:53                 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-05 19:20                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-05 19:49                     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-05 20:36                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-06 10:15                         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-06 16:51                           ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-06 17:29                             ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-06 17:33                               ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-06 18:15                                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]                                 ` <20110906173341.GM18425-9pTldWuhBndy/B6EtB590w@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-07 11:23                                   ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2011-09-07 21:53                                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-07 22:13                                       ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-07 22:42                                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-07 22:53                                           ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-08  5:48                                             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-08  5:50                                               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-08  6:04                                                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-08 23:52                                                   ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-09  0:24                                                     ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-09-09  5:48                                                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-09  6:00                                                       ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-09  6:22                                                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-10 13:21                                                   ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-10 13:49                                                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-01 10:46             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-01 22:49               ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-01 23:04                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-02  5:54                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-02  5:53                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-31 22:50           ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-02  1:54   ` Nicholas Miell
2011-09-02  1:58     ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-02  2:04       ` Nicholas Miell
2011-09-02  2:29         ` Tejun Heo
2011-09-02  8:07           ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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