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Message-ID: <20070620175445.GJ6909@holomorphy.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:54:45 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: JIT emulator needs William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I presumed an ELF note or extended filesystem attributes were already >> in place for this sort of affair. It may be that the model implemented >> is so restrictive that users are forbidden to create new executables, >> in which case using a different model is certainly in order. Otherwise >> the ELF note or attributes need to be implemented. On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:37:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Another thing to keep in mind, since we're talking about security > policies in the first place, is that anything like this *MUST* be > "opt-in" on the part of the security policy, because what we're talking > about is circumventing an explicit security policy just based on a > user-provided binary saying, in effect, "don't worry, I know what I'm > doing." > Changing the meaning of an established explicit security policy is not > acceptable. This is what I had in mind with the commentary on the intentions of the policy. Thank you for correcting my hamhanded attempt to describe it. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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