Re: Dumpable tasks and ownership of /proc/*/fd

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:42:03AM CEST, I got a letter
where "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> said that...
> The most straight forward is:
> int openat(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags, int mode)
> {
>         int orig_dir_fd;
>         int result;
> 	lock()
> 	orig_dir_fd = open(".");
> 	fchdir(dirfd);
>         result = open(relpath);
>         fchdir(orig_dir_fd);
>         close(orig_dir_fd);
>         unlock();
>         return result;
> }
> 
> I suspect something like the above needs to be considered if
> you want the emulation to work on old kernels, in the presence
> of suid applications.
> 
..snip..
> 
> Although I guess you could attempt to use /proc/self/fd/<n>
> and if that gets a permission problem try a slower but more
> reliable path in the emulation.

Oops, I completely forgot about fchdir(). Thanks, I think I will use
something like this for now.


By the way, I would like to return to a statement from your previous
mail:

> Other processes we do need to deny if we aren't dumpable because
> they don't have another way to get that information.

I still don't understand this - so why don't provide them _this_ way to
get that information? What is the security risk?

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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