From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757521AbdECTpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 15:45:40 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57208 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754442AbdECTpg (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2017 15:45:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 12:45:28 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kees Cook Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Matt Brown , James Morris , Jiri Slaby , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Jann Horn , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , linux-security-module , LKML , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] tiocsti-restrict : Add owner user namespace to tty_struct Message-ID: <20170503194528.GA28882@kroah.com> References: <20170424051512.20420-1-matt@nmatt.com> <20170424051512.20420-2-matt@nmatt.com> <20170424135751.GA9030@mail.hallyn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.2 (2017-04-18) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 12:32:07PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Matt Brown (matt@nmatt.com): > >> This patch adds struct user_namespace *owner_user_ns to the tty_struct. > >> Then it is set to current_user_ns() in the alloc_tty_struct function. > >> > >> This is done to facilitate capability checks against the original user > >> namespace that allocated the tty. > >> > >> E.g. ns_capable(tty->owner_user_ns,CAP_SYS_ADMIN) > >> > >> This combined with the use of user namespace's will allow hardening > >> protections to be built to mitigate container escapes that utilize TTY > >> ioctls such as TIOCSTI. > >> > >> See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411256 > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Matt Brown > > > > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn > > This Ack didn't end up in the v5, but I think it stands, yes? > > Greg, is the v5 okay to pull for you or would a v6 with Acks/Reviews > included be preferred? v6 would be great, and we are dropping patch 2 from the series, right? I was expecting this to be resent. I'll start looking at new patches like this after 4.12-rc1 is out. thanks, greg k-h