From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: segoon@openwall.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, therbert@google.com,
xiaosuo@gmail.com, jesse@nicira.com, kees.cook@canonical.com,
eugene@redhat.com, dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:16:06 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110225.111606.115927805.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298660879.2554.23.camel@bwh-desktop>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:07:59 +0000
> You realise that module loading doesn't actually run in the context of
> request_module(), right?
Why is that a barrier? We could simply pass a capability mask into
request_module if necessary.
It's an implementation detail, and not a deterrant to my suggested
scheme.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-25 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 15:12 module loading with CAP_NET_ADMIN Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-24 16:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 12:30 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 15:14 ` [PATCH] don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 17:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-02-25 17:47 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 17:48 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 18:47 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:02 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-25 19:05 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 19:16 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-25 19:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 19:43 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 19:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 20:37 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 20:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-02-25 20:59 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-02-27 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-28 9:29 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-02-28 9:51 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-28 19:23 ` David Miller
2011-03-01 19:48 ` [PATCH] net: " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-01 20:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 21:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 7:15 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-03-09 22:06 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-09 22:09 ` David Miller
2011-03-09 22:53 ` James Morris
2011-03-10 9:49 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 16:01 ` Kees Cook
2011-03-02 19:39 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-02 19:43 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 19:49 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-02 20:18 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-02 20:38 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-02 20:40 ` Jake Edge
2011-03-22 20:47 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-24 15:37 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-03-24 18:03 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-24 18:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-24 20:26 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-03-24 21:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-24 21:46 ` David Miller
2011-03-24 21:57 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-03-24 22:15 ` Eric Paris
2011-03-24 21:57 ` Greg KH
2011-03-26 10:35 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-27 11:44 ` [PATCH] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-02-27 23:18 ` David Miller
2011-02-27 23:19 ` David Miller
2011-02-25 15:29 ` module loading with CAP_NET_ADMIN Michael Tokarev
2011-02-25 15:57 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
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