From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV•linux.org.uk>,
Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the userns tree with the vfs tree
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 12:35:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg9j8kkn.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180806175047.5b612a77@canb.auug.org.au> (Stephen Rothwell's message of "Mon, 6 Aug 2018 17:50:47 +1000")
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:39:05 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Are there any comments on this resolution. I just had to do it all
> again due to slight changes in the vfs tree. What are you guys going
> to tell Linus when he comes to merge this?
Currently that the fscontext changes have a gaping security hole in it's
userspace API. Granted the security hole is copied from the existing
mount api. But I have had multiple real world problems with the
existing behavior, and I have reported it to David Howells multiple
times.
So I honestly don't think David Howells changes are ready to be merged.
The changes to proc exhibit the security holet and I expect they will
have to be redone to make the patch functional.
Eric
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2018-06-20 2:39 linux-next: manual merge of the userns tree with the vfs tree Stephen Rothwell
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