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From: mjg59@google.com (Matthew Garrett)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH V4 2/3] IMA: Use consistent creds
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:17:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACdnJutPiKUTUpS6d7G0zKjrCS8hR3xy1a+Xsi2Chyj7sAvayg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfb721eb-6066-4440-069f-d0089426b787@schaufler-ca.com>

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/2018 11:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> If we want to be able to do something conditional on the LSM context
>> that a process is going to be executed under, *before* commit_creds()
>> is called, is there an existing way to do so? I can rework this so we
>> use the task secid for all running processes and the cred secid for
>> the not-yet-running child process, but I don't know if that's
>> sufficient to avoid problems in future.
>
> It's possible that converting all the existing calls of
> security_task_getsecid() to security_cred_getsecid() is the
> safe approach. No one is using the task blob today, and this
> would disambiguate the situation.

Ok. Should we be looking at creds or real_creds?
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-04 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-03  1:20 [PATCH V4 1/3] security: Add a cred_getsecid hook Matthew Garrett
2018-01-03  1:20 ` [PATCH V4 2/3] IMA: Use consistent creds Matthew Garrett
2018-01-03 15:54   ` Casey Schaufler
2018-01-03 18:11     ` Matthew Garrett
2018-01-03 19:32       ` Casey Schaufler
2018-01-03 19:44         ` Matthew Garrett
2018-01-03 20:08           ` Casey Schaufler
2018-01-04 19:17             ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2018-01-03  1:20 ` [PATCH V4 3/3] IMA: Support using new creds in appraisal policy Matthew Garrett

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