From: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>,
Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:44:52 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1711281041040.13133@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+YPMZk=TuioD216F5kiqfWTNZcNzpjwOiZRnAfbimhpg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
> > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE) ||
> > !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
> > !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
> > !unprivileged_autoload(module_name)))
(Side note: the capable() calls would ideally come after the whitelist
check).
> We have some of this already with the module prefixes. Doing this
> per-module would need to be exported to userspace, I think. It'd be
> way too fragile sitting in the kernel.
What about writing a whitelist to /proc (per-task) or /sys/fs (global) ?
The per-task whitelist is inherited from the global one by default, or
from a parent process if it's been modified in the parent.
--
James Morris
<james.l.morris@oracle.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 17:18 [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 17:18 ` [PATCH v5 next 1/5] modules:capabilities: add request_module_cap() Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 18:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-11-27 21:35 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-28 19:14 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-28 20:11 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-28 21:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-28 21:33 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-28 22:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-28 22:52 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-28 21:39 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-28 22:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-28 22:18 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-28 22:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-29 7:49 ` Michal Kubecek
2017-11-29 13:46 ` Alan Cox
2017-11-29 14:50 ` David Miller
2017-11-29 15:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-29 15:58 ` David Miller
2017-11-29 16:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-29 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-30 0:06 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-29 17:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-11-30 0:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-30 17:17 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-11-28 20:18 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 17:18 ` [PATCH v5 next 2/5] modules:capabilities: add cap_kernel_module_request() permission check Djalal Harouni
2017-11-30 2:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-27 17:18 ` [PATCH v5 next 3/5] modules:capabilities: automatic module loading restriction Djalal Harouni
2017-11-30 1:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-11-30 12:22 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 17:18 ` [PATCH v5 next 4/5] modules:capabilities: add a per-task modules auto-load mode Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 17:18 ` [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use request_module_cap() to load 'netdev-%s' modules Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-27 21:41 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-27 22:59 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-27 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-27 23:19 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-27 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 1:23 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-27 18:41 ` [PATCH v5 next 0/5] Improve Module autoloading infrastructure Linus Torvalds
2017-11-27 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-27 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-27 21:31 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-11-27 19:14 ` David Miller
2017-11-27 22:31 ` James Morris
2017-11-27 23:04 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-27 23:44 ` James Morris [this message]
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