linux-kernel - Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:12:42 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
Cc:	jjohansen@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks

Hi!

> > > You very well know that the vfs has a limit of PATH_MAX characters (4096)
> > > for pathnames. This means that at most that many characters can be passed
> > > at once.
> 
> What users can do is something like this:
> 
>   chdir("some/long/path");
>   chdir("some/even/longer/path");
>   ...
> 
> and the total length of the path can then exceed PATH_MAX characters. We can 
> only accept pathnames up to some upper limit, and we need to somehow define 
> what that limit is supposed to be. We could use PATH_MAX or some other 
> arbitrary number. In most situations PATH_MAX will be fine, but that's not 
> always guaranteed to be the case. So what's wrong about making this 
> configurable for special situations that we might run into? Module parameters 
> are *really* dead cheap.

Parameters are cheap, but this one is ugly.

How will kernel work with very long paths? I'd suspect some problems,
if path is 1MB long and I attempt to print it in /proc
somewhere. Perhaps vfs should be modified not to allow such crazy
paths? But placing limit in aa is ugly.
								Pavel
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