| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:09:15 -0700 From: "Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trace event for capable(). On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:33 PM, richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> > wrote: > > Add a simple trace event for capable(). > > > > There's been a lot of discussion around capable(), and there > > are plenty of tools to help reduce capabilities' usage from > > userspace. A major gap however is that it's almost impossible > > to see or verify which bits are requested from either userspace > > or in the kernel. > > > > This patch adds a minimal tracer that will print out which > > CAPs are requested and whether the request was granted. > > Can we please have support for user namespaces? > At least idicate whether the current namespace is init_user_ns or not. that was the main reason for sending this out already - that should be trivial to add to the trace event, but I haven't looked at namespaces yet myself. I'll check it out. Auke -- 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/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists