Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:14:40 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][SELINUX] Fix selinux_inode_setattr hook |
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* Stephen Smalley (sds@tycho.nsa.gov) wrote: > This patch against 2.6.11-rc3 fixes the selinux_inode_setattr hook > function to honor the ATTR_FORCE flag, skipping any permission checking > in that case. Otherwise, it is possible though unlikely for a denial > from the hook to prevent proper updating, e.g. for remove_suid upon > writing to a file. This would only occur if the process had write > permission to a suid file but lacked setattr permission to it. Please > apply.
Is there any reason not to promote this to the framework?
thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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