From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] SG_IO command filtering via sysfs
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:20:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181112082013.GA9307@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181111134241.GA2447@thunk.org>
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 08:42:42AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> It really depends on the security model being used on a particular
> system. I can easily imagine scenarios where userspace is allowed
> full access to the device with respect to read/write/open, but the
> security model doesn't want to allow access to various SCSI commands
> such as firmware upload commands, TCG commads, the
> soon-to-be-standardized Zone Activation Commands (which allow dynamic
> conversion of HDD recording modes between CMR and SMR), etc.
Well, that's what we have the security_file_ioctl() LSM hook for so that
your security model can arbitrate access to ioctls.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-12 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-10 16:35 [PATCH 0/3] SG_IO command filtering via sysfs Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-10 16:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: add back queue-private command filter Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-10 16:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: create an all-one filter for scanners Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-10 16:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] block: add back command filter modification via sysfs Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-16 5:46 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-11-16 7:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-16 14:42 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-11-10 19:05 ` [PATCH 0/3] SG_IO command filtering " Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-11 13:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-11 14:14 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-16 0:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-16 0:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-11-16 7:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-16 17:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-11 13:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-11 13:42 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-12 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-11-12 10:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-16 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16 9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-16 9:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16 17:43 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-16 18:17 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-11-16 21:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
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