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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:22:24 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas@...ch.de>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
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Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> > index 486334981e60..08f0969208eb 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> > @@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ int run_syscall(int min, int max)
> > CASE_TEST(chmod_net); EXPECT_SYSZR(proc, chmod("/proc/self/net", 0555)); break;
> > CASE_TEST(chmod_self); EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/self", 0555), -1, EPERM); break;
> > CASE_TEST(chown_self); EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chown("/proc/self", 0, 0), -1, EPERM); break;
> > + CASE_TEST(chmod_self_comm); EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/self/comm", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> > + CASE_TEST(chmod_tid_comm); EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/thread-self/comm", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> > + CASE_TEST(chmod_self_environ);EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/self/environ", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> > + CASE_TEST(chmod_tid_environ); EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/thread-self/environ", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
>
> I'm not a big fan of this, it abuses the nolibc testsuite to test core
> kernel functionality.
Yes, this should be dropped.
We need a minimal patch to fix this. This just makes backporting harder
and any test doesn't need to be backported.
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