Re: [TOMOYO 5/9] Memory and pathname management functions.

[Albert Cahalan]

On 6/15/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> [Albert Cahalan]

> > It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big
> > giant
> > pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and
> > userspace.
>
> > Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breakage:
> > cwd, exe, fd/*, maps, mounts, mountstats, root, smaps
>
> Well, but we should be fixing that, not adding more. And /proc is
> info-only, while this is security related code.

Security tools read from /proc, so /proc is security-related.

The limit imposed by TOMOYO (or AppArmor) is fine,
despite being security-related. It just needs to fail in
the safe direction: access denied.
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