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Message-ID: <20091218172054.556de51b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:20:54 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>
Cc: Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, David Lang <david@...g.hm>,
Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
"C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@...ott.net>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Bernie Innocenti <bernie@...ewiz.org>,
Mark Seaborn <mrs@...hic-beasts.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Security: Add prctl(PR_{GET,SET}_NETWORK)
> the LSM-based version *does not* resolve the situation to my satisfaction as a
> userland hacker due to the well-known and long-standing adoption and
> compositionality problems facing small LSMs. ;)
For things like Fedora it's probably an "interesting idea, perhaps we
should do it using SELinux" sort of problem, but a config option for a
magic network prctl is also going to be hard to adopt without producing a
good use case - and avoiding that by dumping crap into everyones kernel
fast paths isn't a good idea either.
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