From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
"SMACK-discuss@lists.01.org" <SMACK-discuss@lists.01.org>,
Linux Security Module list
<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smack: Handle io_uring kernel thread privileges.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:05:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b76a1405-10ae-b8ef-2f08-f84d5cd66fb9@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dacfb329-de66-d0cf-dcf9-f030ea1370de@schaufler-ca.com>
On 12/17/20 6:12 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Smack assumes that kernel threads are privileged for smackfs
> operations. This was necessary because the credential of the
> kernel thread was not related to a user operation. With io_uring
> the credential does reflect a user's rights and can be used.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Jens Axboe
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2020-12-18 1:12 ` [PATCH] Smack: Handle io_uring kernel thread privileges Casey Schaufler
2020-12-21 19:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-22 2:05 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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