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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>,
	Ralph Campbell <infinipath@qlogic.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <ext-jarkko.2.sakkinen@nokia.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] debugfs: only allow root access to debugging interfaces
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:53:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D641446.1080400@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110222195018.GA4000@outflux.net>

On 02/22/2011 11:50 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:34:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
[...]
>
>> Or of course you could just chmod it 0700 in the distro !
>
> I'm trying to, but that involves a race condition since I can't control it
> during the mount (nor set the default mode like I was trying to with the
> patchset). tmpfs allows "mode=", but debugfs does not...
>

Someone skilled in the black arts of kernel programming might be able to 
add 'mode=' support to debugfs.

David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 18:09 [PATCH 1/2] fs: pass root inode mode to simple_fill_super Kees Cook
2011-02-22 18:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] debugfs: only allow root access to debugging interfaces Kees Cook
2011-02-22 18:16   ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 18:32     ` David Daney
2011-02-22 18:47       ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 19:14         ` Greg KH
2011-02-22 19:25           ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 19:34             ` Alan Cox
2011-02-22 19:50               ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 19:53                 ` David Daney [this message]
2011-02-22 20:16                 ` Greg KH
2011-02-22 20:28                   ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 20:37                     ` Greg KH
2011-02-22 20:54                       ` Kees Cook
2011-02-25  0:22                         ` Kees Cook
2011-02-25  0:35                           ` Greg KH
2011-02-25  1:12                             ` Kees Cook
2011-02-25  3:31                               ` Greg KH
2011-02-25  3:39                                 ` Al Viro
2011-02-22 19:54               ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 19:43             ` Greg KH
2011-02-22 19:13     ` Greg KH
2011-02-22 19:22       ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 19:33         ` Greg KH
2011-02-22 20:29           ` Dan Carpenter
2011-02-22 20:33             ` Kees Cook
2011-02-22 20:58             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-02-24 16:38               ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-24 17:34                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-02-26 11:50                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-25 19:56             ` Greg KH
2011-02-25 20:40               ` Hugh Dickins
2011-02-25 20:57                 ` Greg KH

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