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From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] overlayfs: caller_credentials option bypass creator_cred
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:32:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <afbcabfc-2e25-d2fc-107a-5418b5e0806f@android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180618192726.67981-1-salyzyn@android.com>

On 06/18/2018 12:27 PM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> All accesses to the lower filesystems reference the creator (mount)
> context.  This is a security issue as the user context does not
> overlay the creator context.
<sigh> been typing overlay far too many times, muscle memory struck!

"overlap the creator context."

-- Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-18 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-18 19:27 [PATCH v2] overlayfs: caller_credentials option bypass creator_cred Mark Salyzyn
2018-06-18 19:32 ` Mark Salyzyn [this message]
2018-06-18 22:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-06-19  5:39   ` Amir Goldstein
2018-06-19 14:16 ` Vivek Goyal

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