linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Taming execve, setuid, and LSMs

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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:11:55 -0400
From:	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Taming execve, setuid, and LSMs

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> True,  but I think it's still asking for trouble -- other LSMs could
>> (and almost certainly will, especially the out-of-tree ones) do
>> something, and I think that any action at all that an LSM takes in the
>> bprm_set_creds hook for a nosuid (or whatever it's called) process is
>> wrong or at best misguided.
>
> I could be wrong, but I think the point is that your reasoning is
> correct, and that the same reasoning must apply if we're just
> executing a file out of an fs which has been mounted with '-o nosuid'.

I tend to agree, except that only root can set nosuid (presumably) and
making that change will change existing behavior.  Is that a problem?

--Andy
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