Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:22:05 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [TOMOYO 5/9] Memory and pathname management functions. |
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Hi!
> >> It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big > >> giant > >> pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and > >> userspace. > > > >> Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breakage: > >> cwd, exe, fd/*, maps, mounts, mountstats, root, smaps > > > >Well, but we should be fixing that, not adding more. And /proc is > >info-only, while this is security related code. > > Security tools read from /proc, so /proc is security-related.
If some tool relies on pathnames in /proc, that tool is broken... as is /proc. We should be fixing that.
> The limit imposed by TOMOYO (or AppArmor) is fine, > despite being security-related. It just needs to fail in
It is not "fine", but maybe it will not get us a bugtraq posting. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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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