Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2017 01:25:36 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: check for DAC_READ_SEARCH instead of SYS_ADMIN |
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 03:24:46PM +0200, Nicolas Belouin wrote: > These checks are meant to prevent leaks or attacks via directory > traversal, the use of CAP_SYS_ADMIN here is a misuse, > CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH being way more appropriate as a process > with CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH is entrusted with going trough all directories. > CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not meant to flag such a process. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Belouin <nicolas@belouin.fr>
No. lookup_dcookie() is a horrid, horrid, hack which is *spectacularly* dangerous. We should not be trying to encourage its use for anything beside its single legacy user, oprofile(8), for which CAP_SYS_ADMIN is appropriate.
- Ted
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