Re: [PATCH v12 05/12] namei: obey trailing magic-link DAC permissions

2019-09-18 Thread Aleksa Sarai
On 2019-09-18, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > On 2019-09-17, Jann Horn wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:21 PM Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > > The ability for userspace to "re-open" file descriptors through > > > /proc/self/fd has been a very useful tool for all sorts of usecases > > > (container runtimes a

Re: [PATCH v12 05/12] namei: obey trailing magic-link DAC permissions

2019-09-18 Thread Aleksa Sarai
On 2019-09-17, Jann Horn wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:21 PM Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > The ability for userspace to "re-open" file descriptors through > > /proc/self/fd has been a very useful tool for all sorts of usecases > > (container runtimes are one common example). However, the current >

[PATCH v12 05/12] namei: obey trailing magic-link DAC permissions

2019-09-04 Thread Aleksa Sarai
The ability for userspace to "re-open" file descriptors through /proc/self/fd has been a very useful tool for all sorts of usecases (container runtimes are one common example). However, the current interface for doing this has resulted in some pretty subtle security holes. Userspace can re-open a f