From: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
serue@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:46:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462AB061.2070104@cs.columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070421005513.e230aa88.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:25:39 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>
>> Define a new fs flag FS_SAFE, which denotes, that unprivileged
>> mounting of this filesystem may not constitute a security problem.
>>
>> Since most filesystems haven't been designed with unprivileged
>> mounting in mind, a thorough audit is needed before setting this flag.
>
> Practically speaking, is there any realistic likelihood that any filesystem
> apart from FUSE will ever use this?
Would it be interesting to support mounting of external file systems (be
it USB, NFS or whatever) in a way that automatically forces it to ignore
suid and devices (which are already mount time options)? The question
I guess is, how much do you gain over a setuid program (hack?) that can
handle this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-20 10:25 [patch 0/8] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v4) Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 1/8] add user mounts to the kernel Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 7:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 8:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 13:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 7:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-22 7:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 8:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-22 16:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 2/8] allow unprivileged umount Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 7:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 8:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-21 8:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 12:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 6:47 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-22 7:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 7:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 13:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 7:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 3/8] account user mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 7:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 13:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 7:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-22 7:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 8:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 4/8] propagate error values from clone_mnt Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 13:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 5/8] allow unprivileged bind mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 14:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 7:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 6/8] put declaration of put_filesystem() in fs.h Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 7:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 8:13 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 8:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 14:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-21 15:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-21 16:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-21 17:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-21 21:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 8:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 22:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-21 21:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 0:46 ` Shaya Potter [this message]
2007-04-20 10:25 ` [patch 8/8] allow unprivileged fuse mounts Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 7:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 8:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-21 14:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-22 7:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-20 12:42 ` [patch 0/8] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v4) Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-20 16:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-21 8:30 ` Majkls
2007-04-21 8:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-25 0:04 ` Karel Zak
2007-04-25 1:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-25 7:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-25 9:23 ` Karel Zak
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-04 18:30 [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall Miklos Szeredi
2007-04-04 18:30 ` [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts Miklos Szeredi
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