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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@amazon.com>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Daan De Meyer" <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>,
	"David Rheinsberg" <david@readahead.eu>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>, "Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
	"Lennart Poettering" <lennart@poettering.net>,
	"Luca Boccassi" <bluca@debian.org>, "Mike Yuan" <me@yhndnzj.com>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
	"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"Alexander Mikhalitsyn" <alexander@mihalicyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 08/10] net, pidfs, coredump: only allow coredumping tasks to connect to coredump socket
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 16:06:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250505-dompteur-hinhalten-204b1e16bd02@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez3UKBf0bGJY_xh1MHwHgDh1bwhbzMdxS64=gHNZDnNuMQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 03:08:07PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Make sure that only tasks that actually coredumped may connect to the
> > coredump socket. This restriction may be loosened later in case
> > userspace processes would like to use it to generate their own
> > coredumps. Though it'd be wiser if userspace just exposed a separate
> > socket for that.
> 
> This implementation kinda feels a bit fragile to me... I wonder if we
> could instead have a flag inside the af_unix client socket that says
> "this is a special client socket for coredumping".

Should be easily doable with a sock_flag().

  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-05 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-05 11:13 [PATCH RFC v3 00/10] coredump: add coredump socket Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 01/10] coredump: massage format_corname() Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 02/10] coredump: massage do_coredump() Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 03/10] net: reserve prefix Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 04/10] coredump: add coredump socket Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 12:55   ` Jann Horn
2025-05-05 13:06     ` Luca Boccassi
2025-05-05 14:46     ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 18:48   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-06  8:24     ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 05/10] coredump: validate socket name as it is written Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 06/10] coredump: show supported coredump modes Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 07/10] pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 08/10] net, pidfs, coredump: only allow coredumping tasks to connect to coredump socket Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 13:08   ` Jann Horn
2025-05-05 14:06     ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2025-05-05 18:40       ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-05 19:10         ` Jann Horn
2025-05-05 19:35           ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-05 19:44             ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-05 19:55               ` Jann Horn
2025-05-05 20:41                 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-06  7:39                 ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-06 14:51                   ` Jann Horn
2025-05-06 15:16                     ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-06 19:28                       ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-07 11:50                     ` Mickaël Salaün
2025-05-05 19:55             ` Jann Horn
2025-05-05 20:30               ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-06  8:06           ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-06 14:37             ` Jann Horn
2025-05-06 19:18             ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-07 11:51               ` Mickaël Salaün
2025-05-07 14:22                 ` Lennart Poettering
2025-05-07 22:10                 ` Paul Moore
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 09/10] selftests/pidfd: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP infrastructure Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 11:13 ` [PATCH RFC v3 10/10] selftests/coredump: add tests for AF_UNIX coredumps Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 14:41 ` [PATCH RFC v3 00/10] coredump: add coredump socket Mickaël Salaün
2025-05-05 14:56   ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-05 15:38     ` Mickaël Salaün
2025-05-05 14:59   ` Jann Horn
2025-05-05 15:39     ` Mickaël Salaün
2025-05-05 18:33 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2025-05-06  7:33   ` Christian Brauner

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