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Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:00:28 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, tj@...nel.org
CC:	ssorce@...hat.com, jkaluza@...hat.com, lpoetter@...hat.com,
	kay@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP

On 03/12/2014 01:46 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Implement SO_PEERCGROUP along the lines of SO_PEERCRED. This returns the
> cgroup of first mounted hierarchy of the task. For the case of client,
> it represents the cgroup of client at the time of opening the connection.
> After that client cgroup might change.

Even if people decide that sending cgroups over a unix socket is a good
idea, this API has my NAK in the strongest possible sense, for whatever
my NAK is worth.

IMO SO_PEERCRED is a disaster.  Calling send(2) or write(2) should
*never* imply the use of a credential.  A program should always have to
*explicitly* request use of a credential.  What you want is SCM_CGROUP.

(I've found privilege escalations before based on this observation, and
I suspect I'll find them again.)

Note that I think that you really want SCM_SOMETHING_ELSE and not
SCM_CGROUP, but I don't know what the use case is yet.

--Andy
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