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Message-ID: <20091207174049.50537ddf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:40:49 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc: miklos@...redi.hu, luto@....edu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vfs: new O_NODE open flag
> Well, yes. That's true. But I still don't think revoke() is the
> answer here. For example even without the possibility of hard links
> there's still a race in udev in the following course of events:
>
> open("/dev/foo", O_RDWR)
> ... open passes permission checks
> ... driver gets unloaded
> ... driver intended for other user gets loaded
> ... open finds new driver
> What we really need is to revoke the *inode*, so that it cannot be
> opened any more. Doing it with unlink() and revoke() and requiring
> that link() does not work on the filesystem is a poor and racy
> substitute for that.
Can't argue with that and going through the kernel logic I don't see
anything preventing an exploit based on that from working.
Alan
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