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Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:49:33 +0100
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
CC: pavel@....cz, miklos@...redi.hu, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
dhowells@...hat.com, hch@...radead.org, adilger@....com,
mtk.manpages@...il.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
drepper@...il.com, jamie@...reable.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 resend] vfs: new O_NODE open flag
On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> So far no one who believes this to be a security hole has found it
> worth their while to look at nd->intent.open in proc_pid_follow_link
> and write a patch.
A rather disgusting patch that would be. The fact is, checking
permissions on follow_link makes little to no sense. Consider
truncate(2), for example. Will we add another intent for that? I
really hope not.
I'm more and more convinced, that the current behavior is the right
one.
Thanks,
Miklos
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