From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mjt@tls.msk.ru, arnd@arndb.de,
mirqus@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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 v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 23:18:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110302201807.GA31965@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110302124936.289a1915@chukar>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:49 -0700, Jake Edge wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:43:54 +0300 Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:39 -0700, Jake Edge wrote:
> > > > @@ -1765,4 +1765,4 @@ module_exit(ipgre_fini);
> > > > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > > > MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gre");
> > > > MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gretap");
> > > > -MODULE_ALIAS("gre0");
> > > > +MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("gre0");
> > >
> > > that is, instead of replacing MODULE_ALIAS("gre0") with the NETDEV
> > > version, don't you want both for backward compatibility?
> >
> > The networking script will run with CAP_NET_ADMIN, this would request
> > netdev-gre0 and load ip_gre.
>
> and on systems that today use CAP_SYS_MODULE
Since Linux 2.6.32 CAP_SYS_MODULE may not load modules via "ifconfig
gre0". It was changed to CAP_NET_ADMIN. So nothing is broken here.
> (or really the full set of
> capabilities cuz they are running as root)?
As root has CAP_NET_ADMIN, the alias netdev-gre0 is tried and it succeeds.
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 20:18 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
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 [this message]
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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