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From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"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 20:43:44 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FA3EE8.4080707@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926104500.GA4354@dspnet.fr.eu.org>

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> chroot does not allow you to walk out if you're in.

You're mistaken.  Or more properly, further use of chroot lets you walk 
out.  This really has been said before, and before, and before.

    chroot("subtree");   // enter chroot
    chdir("/");    // now at subtree
    chroot("/tmp");   // now outside of chroot


BSD redefined chroot so that the working directory is set to the new 
root on subsequent uses of chroot; that's how they solved the bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <952DN-83o-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <954cl-29C-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <95ctn-74b-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <95cMH-7um-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <95gdA-4OZ-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
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
2007-09-26 10:47                                                 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-26 11:06                                                   ` David Newall
2007-09-26 11:20                                                     ` Alan Cox
     [not found]                                                       ` <46FA41B4.9040104@prepere.com>
     [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 [this message]
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
     [not found]         ` <95UE2-1oR-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <95V72-2ly-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <97pG8-3B5-47@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]               ` <97sX2-p1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-09-26  9:38                 ` Nick Craig-Wood

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