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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>, Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:42:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152902522.314.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1u05krrhz.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:06 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 11:18 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> /proc/<pid>/fd/...
> >> /proc/<pid>/exe
> >> /proc/<pid>/cwd
> >> 
> >> It isn't quite the same as you are actually opening a second
> >> copy of the file descriptor but the essence is the same. 
> >
> > Last I checked, those were symlinks and didn't work for things like
> > deleted files.  Am I wrong?
> 
> Yes.  They are not really symlinks.
> 
> Wanting to have an executable that was deleted after it was done
> executing.  I wrote it to a file. opened it, unlinked it, set close
> on exec, and the exec'd it with /proc/self/fd/N.

Well, on one hand, it makes checkpoints with deleted files easier ;)

Now that I'm actually looking at the code, isn't
proc_fd_access_allowed()'s permission just derived from ptrace
permissions?  It doesn't seem to involve uids directly at all!

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11  7:50 [PATCH -mm 0/7] execns syscall and user namespace Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 1/7] add execns syscall core routine Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 2/7] add execns syscall to s390 Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 13:44   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-11 13:44   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-11 14:44     ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 14:54       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-11 15:43         ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 3/7] add execns syscall to x86_64 Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 4/7] add execns syscall to i386 Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 16:39   ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-07-11 17:38     ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-12 11:21       ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-07-13 16:01         ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-12  3:33     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 11:13       ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-07-12 18:10         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 17:00           ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-13 18:07             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 18:21             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 18:31               ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-13 18:54                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12  3:46   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 12:05     ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-07-12 17:09       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 14:00     ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-12 17:24       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 17:36         ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-13 17:47           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-13 18:14             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 18:29               ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-13 19:02                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 20:03                   ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-14  3:45                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 14:28                       ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-14 15:13                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 16:29                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 16:49                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 16:55                               ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-14 17:08                                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 17:19                                   ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-14 17:36                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 18:15                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-14 18:40                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 21:04                                           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-15  4:09                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-15  4:35                                               ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-15 12:35                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-15 13:25                                                   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-15 15:54                                                   ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-15 17:01                                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-15 23:29                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-16 16:18                                                       ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-14 17:14                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-16  8:36                                 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-07-16 10:08                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 17:05                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 17:50                                 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-15 11:33                                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 17:56                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 16:35                           ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-13 21:41                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14  3:52                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 14:02                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 14:50                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 16:39                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 17:18                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 17:24                               ` Dave Hansen
2006-07-14 18:06                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 18:42                                   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2006-07-14 19:07                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 17:59           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 21:22             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14  3:50               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 14:17         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 15:05           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 16:46             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-07-14 16:58               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-14 15:43           ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-14 16:13             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 6/7] add the user namespace to the execns syscall Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  7:50 ` [PATCH -mm 7/7] forbid the use of the unshare syscall on ipc namespaces Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 14:10   ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-07-11 15:06     ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11  8:02 ` [PATCH -mm 0/7] execns syscall and user namespace Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-11  8:42   ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-11 18:26   ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 18:28     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-11 19:50       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-11 21:50         ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-11 21:57           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12  0:16             ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-12  0:25               ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12  0:28           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-11 20:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-11 21:28   ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-12  3:24     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-12 13:05       ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-12 16:56         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-13 16:13           ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-07-12 11:11   ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-07-12 13:10     ` Cedric Le Goater
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-15 17:39 [PATCH -mm 5/7] add " Al Boldi
2006-07-16 12:19 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-17 11:25   ` Al Boldi

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