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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"security@kernel.org" <security@kernel.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] x86: allow to enable/disable modify_ldt at run time
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:00:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150805080037.GA14472@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150804084911.GA24204@1wt.eu>


* Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> @@ -276,6 +282,15 @@ asmlinkage int sys_modify_ldt(int func, void __user *ptr,
>  {
>  	int ret = -ENOSYS;
>  
> +	if (!sysctl_modify_ldt) {
> +		printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO
> +			"Denied a call to modify_ldt() from %s[%d] (uid: %d)."
> +			" Adjust sysctl if this was not an exploit attempt.\n",
> +			current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
> +			from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), current_uid()));

UI nit: so this message should really tell the user _which_ sysctl to configure, 
instead of passive-aggressively alluding to the fact that there's a sysctl 
somewhere that might do the trick...

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-05  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-03 18:23 [PATCH 0/2] x86: allow to enable/disable modify_ldt at run time Willy Tarreau
2015-08-03 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: add a new generic strategy to make permanent changes on negative values Willy Tarreau
2015-08-03 18:33   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-03 18:50     ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-03 18:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/ldt: allow to disable modify_ldt at runtime Willy Tarreau
2015-08-03 18:45   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-03 19:01     ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-03 19:06       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-03 19:18         ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-04  3:54     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-08-04  6:00       ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-03 22:35   ` Kees Cook
2015-08-03 23:19     ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-04  1:36       ` Kees Cook
2015-08-04  8:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] x86: allow to enable/disable modify_ldt at run time Willy Tarreau
2015-08-05  8:00   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-08-05  8:08     ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-05  8:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-05  9:03         ` Willy Tarreau
2015-08-05  9:10           ` Ingo Molnar

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