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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 04:14:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151210041424.GD20997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151209225148.GA14794@www.outflux.net>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 02:51:48PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 3aa514254161..409bd7047e7e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ struct file {
>  	struct list_head	f_tfile_llink;
>  #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
>  	struct address_space	*f_mapping;
> +	bool			f_remove_privs;

NAK.  If anything, such things belong in ->f_flags.  _If_ this is worth
doing at all, that is.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-10  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-09 22:51 [PATCH v5] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing Kees Cook
2015-12-10  1:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-12-10  3:25   ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10  4:14 ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-12-10  7:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2015-12-10  7:10   ` Willy Tarreau
2015-12-10 18:05   ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 18:16     ` Willy Tarreau
2015-12-10 18:18       ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 19:33       ` Al Viro
2015-12-10 19:47         ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 20:27           ` Al Viro
2015-12-10 21:45             ` Kees Cook
2015-12-10 21:56               ` Al Viro
2015-12-10 22:00                 ` Kees Cook

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