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From: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public•gmane.org>
To: ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public•gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: paul.moore-VXdhtT5mjnY@public•gmane.org,
	sds-+05T5uksL2qpZYMLLGbcSA@public•gmane.org,
	jmorris-gx6/JNMH7DfYtjvyW6yDsg@public•gmane.org,
	rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public•gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #11500] /proc/net bug related to selinux
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:11:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080917151143.debb6adc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1vdwu4fku.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:39:45 -0700
ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public•gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Paul Moore <paul.moore-VXdhtT5mjnY@public•gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > We suck?  Maybe, but some explanation about why we suck in this 
> > particular case would be helpful as far as I'm concerned.  I don't 
> > really care about identifying the guilty suckees, I'm more interested 
> > in finding out what happened to cause us to suck because of this.
> 
> Agreed.  I believe we carefully gave selinux the same paths for /proc/net
> that it had before so I don't know why this affects user space.
> 
> I know we had some selinux review when we made the change.
> 
> Eric

It's back up-thread somewhere.  umm...

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:05:26 -0400
Stephen Smalley <sds-+05T5uksL2qpZYMLLGbcSA@public•gmane.org> wrote:

> However, the most likely explanation is simply that when /proc/net was
> changed from being a directory to being a symlink to /proc/self/net,
> that introduced an additional permission check on accesses
> of /proc/net/<whatever>, namely the read check on the symlink itself.
> And since that check wasn't happening on /proc/net accesses with older
> kernels, older policies didn't allow it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-17 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <j3zWxt-CgYL.A.WTF.bbsyIB@albercik>
     [not found] ` <SpS7rta8n4.A.DCB.IfsyIB@albercik>
2008-09-13  8:47   ` [Bug #11271] BUG: fealnx in 2.6.27-rc1 Jaswinder Singh
     [not found] ` <SpS7rta8n4.A.i9G.ZcsyIB@albercik>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.LRH.1.10.0809130812460.12313@tundra.namei.org>
     [not found]     ` <20080912152443.c4e59f42.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]       ` <alpine.LRH.1.10.0809131012310.13073@tundra.namei.org>
     [not found]         ` <20080913123722.e238ae2a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]           ` <1221483926.30816.18.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
     [not found]             ` <1221483926.30816.18.camel-/ugcdrsPCSfIm9DtXLC9OUVfdvkotuLY+aIohriVLy8@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-17 19:50               ` [Bug #11500] /proc/net bug related to selinux Andrew Morton
2008-09-17 21:24                 ` Paul Moore
2008-09-17 21:39                   ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                     ` <m1vdwu4fku.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-17 22:11                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-09-17 21:48                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-17 22:12                     ` Paul Moore
2008-09-17 22:24                       ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]                         ` <20080917152407.76230f0c.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-17 22:53                           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                     ` <20080917144842.7df59f9e.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-17 22:32                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-09-18 12:38                         ` Stephen Smalley
2008-09-18 13:03                           ` Stephen Smalley
2008-09-18 18:09                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-09-18 18:34                               ` Stephen Smalley
     [not found]                                 ` <1221762850.24048.107.camel-/ugcdrsPCSfIm9DtXLC9OUVfdvkotuLY+aIohriVLy8@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-19 16:58                                   ` david-gFPdbfVZQbY
2008-09-19 17:07                                     ` Stephen Smalley
2008-09-29 16:49                                   ` Stephen Smalley
     [not found]                   ` <200809171724.36269.paul.moore-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-17 22:23                     ` David Miller
     [not found]                 ` <20080917125053.1f9ecf37.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-17 21:56                   ` Eric W. Biederman

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