Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] procfs: add proc_allow_access() to check if file'sopener may access task

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Oct 04 2013 - 19:08:51 EST


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd really like a solution where there are no read or write
> implementations in the entire kernel that check permissions. Failing
> that, just getting it for procfs would be nice. (uid_map, etc will
> probably need to be revoked on unshare for this to work.)

By "check permissions" I mean using anything but f_cred.

uid_map won't need any form of revoke, though -- the stuct file
already points at a particular target ns. I wonder why the
CAP_SYS_ADMIN check is in map_write instead of open, though.

--Andy
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