From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at>,
7eggert@gmx.de, majkls <majkls@prepere.com>,
bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Chroot bug
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:54:15 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FA334F.7030802@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926011847.49bbb9a2@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> Good call. Though I suppose, since it's used 24x7 to aid security on
>> countless production servers, that security dwarfs testing. Still,
>> debugging, yes that's valid.
>>
>> I don't suppose it makes and difference; whatever the purpose, a chroot
>> that doesn't change the root is buggy.
>>
>
> It does change the root, it just doesn't guarantee you can't change it
> back - which is correct POSIX, Unix, SuS behaviour. So either everyone
> else is wrong or you are.. I know who I am betting on
>
Charming. They really say that, do they? Where? I find no such thing,
and I looked. I did find Open Groups SuS which, similar to SCO's UNIX,
says:
> The dot-dot entry in the root directory is interpreted to mean the
> root directory itself. Thus, dot-dot cannot be used to access files
> outside the subtree rooted at the root directory.
I feel I've presented a good case that that it's a bug. You made a
somewhat rude counter-claim, which I don't ascribe to malevolence.
You're simply disinterested. Nobody else cares, so why expend effort on
it, right? I'll let it drop, but it is a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-09-20 11:13 ` sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix Bodo Eggert
2007-09-20 11:59 ` Philipp Marek
2007-09-20 12:52 ` majkls
2007-09-20 16:06 ` David Newall
2007-09-20 16:17 ` Philipp Marek
2007-09-20 18:02 ` David Newall
2007-09-20 20:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-21 8:29 ` David Newall
2007-09-24 21:32 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-24 22:04 ` David Newall
2007-09-24 23:00 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 7:45 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 11:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 13:58 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 15:10 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) David Newall
2007-09-25 15:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 15:39 ` Chroot bug Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 15:41 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 15:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 16:19 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 16:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 17:00 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 17:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 17:09 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 17:09 ` Al Viro
2007-09-25 17:19 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 16:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-25 20:51 ` David Newall
2007-09-25 15:30 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) Alan Cox
2007-09-25 15:35 ` Chroot bug David Newall
2007-09-25 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-25 15:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-25 23:50 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 0:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 10:24 ` David Newall [this message]
2007-09-26 10:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:06 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:20 ` Alan Cox
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[not found] ` <20070926123522.54ffd56f@the-village.bc.nu>
2007-09-26 11:34 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-26 14:09 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 13:13 ` Bongani Hlope
2007-09-26 0:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 5:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-26 5:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-26 10:27 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 10:45 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-09-26 11:13 ` David Newall
2007-09-26 13:18 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-26 15:02 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-09-26 12:54 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-26 13:11 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-26 13:42 ` Al Viro
2007-09-26 14:51 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-26 14:02 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-26 15:01 ` Miloslav Semler
2007-09-27 13:49 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-09-25 16:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-25 15:32 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) Adrian Bunk
2007-09-25 15:43 ` Chroot bug Miloslav Semler
2007-09-25 16:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-26 19:23 ` Chroot bug (was: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix) Bodo Eggert
2007-09-24 23:02 ` sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix Serge E. Hallyn
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2007-09-26 9:38 ` Nick Craig-Wood
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