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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, kjhall@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, safford@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: mprotect abuse in slim
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:35:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070111143537.GB6843@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFE2C5A2DE.3ADDD896-ON8525725D.007C0671-8525725D.007D2BA9@us.ibm.com>

Hi!

> SLIM implements dynamic process labels, so when a process
> is demoted, we must be able to revoke write access to some
> resources to which it has previously valid handles.
> For example, if a shell reads an untrusted file, the
> shell is demoted, and write access to more trusted files
> revoked. Based on previous comments on lkml, we understand
> that this is not really possible in general, so SLIM only
> attempts to revoke access in certain simple cases.

Are you saying that SLIM is useless by design because interested
parties can work around it?
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-12 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08 13:41 mprotect abuse in slim Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-08 22:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2007-01-09  3:07   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-09  9:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-09 20:54       ` Chris Wright
2007-01-09 23:14       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-01-10  7:21         ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-01-10 15:58           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-01-11  7:39             ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-11 15:49               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-01-12  7:43                 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-12 15:17                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-01-12  9:45         ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-12 19:28           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-01-12 19:53             ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-01-09 21:30     ` Mimi Zohar
2007-01-09 19:27   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-09 21:45     ` Mimi Zohar
2007-01-11 14:35   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-01-12 20:08     ` Mimi Zohar

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