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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] allow some kernel filesystems to be mounted in a user namespace
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:38:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130716193826.GP4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130716192920.GA8980@sergelap>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 02:29:20PM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> All the files will be owned by host root, so there's no security
> concern in allowing this.

Files owned by root != very bad things can't be done by non-root.
Especially for debugfs, which is very much a "don't even think about
mounting that on a production box" thing...

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-16 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-16 19:29 [PATCH RFC] allow some kernel filesystems to be mounted in a user namespace Serge Hallyn
2013-07-16 19:38 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-07-16 19:50   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-07-16 21:33     ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-07-16 21:37       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-07-16 21:39         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-07-16 21:44         ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-07-16 22:03           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-07-16 22:07             ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-07-16 22:23               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-07-17  5:43                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-07-17 12:41                   ` Serge Hallyn

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