linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: block cross-uid sticky symlinks

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1006010904190.675@tundra.namei.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:09:10 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: block cross-uid sticky symlinks

On Mon, 31 May 2010, Kees Cook wrote:

> Expecting the push-back from VFS, I wrote this patch against commoncaps.
> 
> James, would you take it there (along with the patch to SELinux to call
> out to commoncaps) if there is no way to proceed with the VFS core towards
> solving this?

Isn't this just bypassing the VFS objections?


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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