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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make Yama pid_ns aware
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:49:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111123144928.GA3893@hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111123074510.GA2356@albatros>

Quoting Vasiliy Kulikov (segoon@openwall.com):
> Actually, what concerns me is not ptrace, but symlink/hardling
> protection.  There is no interaction between namespaces in case of
> containers via symlinks in the basic case.  In case of ptrace I don't
> think the child ns may weaken the parent ns - child ns may not access
> processes of the parent namespace and everything it may ptrace is
> already inside of this ns.

Oh, yes.  If you're saying the symlink protection shouldn't be
per-pidns, I agree it seems an odd fit.

How about a version of this patch leaving symlink protection
out of pidns (maybe in user ns), and just putting ptrace
protection per-pidns?

-serge

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 23:49 [PATCH v6 0/3] security: Yama LSM Kees Cook
2011-10-26 23:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Kees Cook
2011-10-26 23:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] security: create task_free security callback Kees Cook
2011-10-26 23:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] security: Yama: add ptrace relationship tracking interface Kees Cook
2011-11-19 16:30   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-19 16:59     ` Solar Designer
2011-11-21 18:40       ` Kees Cook
2011-11-01 20:45 ` [PATCH v6 0/3] security: Yama LSM James Morris
2011-11-01 21:05   ` Kees Cook
2011-11-01 21:37     ` James Morris
2011-11-01 23:23       ` Kees Cook
2011-11-18  4:17 ` James Morris
2011-11-18 21:39   ` Kees Cook
2011-11-18 21:45     ` Roland McGrath
2011-11-18 22:44       ` Kees Cook
2011-11-18 23:18   ` Kees Cook
2011-11-21 19:18 ` [RFC] Make Yama pid_ns aware Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-21 19:42   ` Kees Cook
2011-11-22 18:13   ` Serge Hallyn
2011-11-22 19:20     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-22 20:10       ` Serge Hallyn
2011-11-23  7:45         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-23 14:41           ` Serge Hallyn
2011-11-23 14:49           ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2011-11-23 16:55             ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-23 17:00               ` Serge Hallyn
2011-11-28 18:12               ` Kees Cook
2011-11-28 18:14                 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-28 19:16 ` [RFC -resend] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-28 19:35   ` Kees Cook
2011-11-28 20:15     ` Kees Cook
2011-11-28 20:00   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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