From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752954AbaCLVAd (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:00:33 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:41328 "EHLO mail-pb0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752078AbaCLVAb (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:00:31 -0400 Message-ID: <5320CAEC.6030008@amacapital.net> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:00:28 -0700 From: Andy Lutomirski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Goyal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, tj@kernel.org CC: ssorce@redhat.com, jkaluza@redhat.com, lpoetter@redhat.com, kay@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP References: <1394657163-7472-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <1394657163-7472-3-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1394657163-7472-3-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/12/2014 01:46 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Implement SO_PEERCGROUP along the lines of SO_PEERCRED. This returns the > cgroup of first mounted hierarchy of the task. For the case of client, > it represents the cgroup of client at the time of opening the connection. > After that client cgroup might change. Even if people decide that sending cgroups over a unix socket is a good idea, this API has my NAK in the strongest possible sense, for whatever my NAK is worth. IMO SO_PEERCRED is a disaster. Calling send(2) or write(2) should *never* imply the use of a credential. A program should always have to *explicitly* request use of a credential. What you want is SCM_CGROUP. (I've found privilege escalations before based on this observation, and I suspect I'll find them again.) Note that I think that you really want SCM_SOMETHING_ELSE and not SCM_CGROUP, but I don't know what the use case is yet. --Andy