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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: chris@scary.beasts.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>,
	Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: secure computing for 2.6.7
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:45:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091393114.31139.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408011801260.1368@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com>

On Sul, 2004-08-01 at 18:29, chris@scary.beasts.org wrote:
> How hard would it be to have a per-task bitmap of syscalls allowed? This
> way, a task could restrict to the exact subset of syscalls required for
> maximum security.

Very easy indeed, although you might have to do a tiny bit of tweaking
for kernel made syscalls (eg hotplug triggers).

You can already do all of this using several user space applications
that manage it via ptrace. They do have a performance hit however.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-01 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-04 17:39 secure computing for 2.6.7 andrea
2004-07-04 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 23:32   ` andrea
2004-07-05  0:37     ` Phy Prabab
2004-10-12 14:24   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-12 15:32     ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-12 15:59       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-12 16:28         ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-12 17:46           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-12 18:04             ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-12 18:10             ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-12 18:29               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-07 19:27 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-01 10:22   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-01 12:01     ` chris
2004-08-01 15:01       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-01 17:29         ` chris
2004-08-01 18:52           ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-01 20:45           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-01 23:10             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-01 23:08               ` Alan Cox
2004-08-02 10:25                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-01 23:06           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-02  6:52             ` David Wagner
2004-08-03 12:48         ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-01 14:55     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-01 15:51       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-01 17:24         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-02  3:17         ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-02 16:31           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-03 12:40   ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-03 21:02     ` Alexander Lyamin
2004-08-05 11:47       ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-04  8:57     ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-05 11:48       ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-07 23:20     ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-09 12:35       ` Stephen Smalley
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     [not found] ` <2fqhq-1RU-45@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2olLt-4wI-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-02  0:05     ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-02 10:19       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-02 19:06         ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-02 21:35           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-08-04 13:18       ` V13

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