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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:23:41 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701291017520.11801@d.namei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170075866.8720.15.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> NAK. Mapping all sysctls to a single security label prevents any kind
> of fine-grained security on sysctls, and current policies already make
> use of the current distinctions to limit access to particular sets of
> sysctls to particular processes. As is, I'd expect breakage of current
> systems running SELinux from this patch, because (confined) processes
> that formerly only required access to specific sysctl labels will
> suddenly run into denials on the generic fallback label.
Agreed, 100% NACK.
Please don't just simply remove long-researched & analyzed MAC security
which has been in the kernel for years, which is being used in the field
for high assurance systems, because you neglected to consider it during a
code cleanup.
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-29 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20070128003549.2ca38dc8.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <20070128093358.GA2071@elte.hu>
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[not found] ` <20070128100627.GA8416@elte.hu>
[not found] ` <20070128104548.a835d859.akpm@osdl.org>
2007-01-28 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 13:04 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-29 15:23 ` James Morris [this message]
2007-01-29 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 19:26 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-29 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 18:43 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-29 19:08 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-01-29 20:07 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-01-30 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 17:19 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-01-29 19:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-29 23:28 ` Russell Coker
2007-02-06 21:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Add a parent entry to ctl_table and set the parent entry Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 21:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: Restore the selinux path based label lookup for sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-07 18:24 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 21:12 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 21:54 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 15:07 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-08 1:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 15:01 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-08 17:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 18:13 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-08 22:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:51 ` [PATCH 0/5] sysctl cleanup selinux fixes Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] sysctl: Remove declaration of nonexistent sysctl_init() Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] sysctl: Set the parent field in the root sysctl table Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 22:55 ` [PATCH 3/5] sysctl: Fix the selinux_sysctl_get_sid Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 23:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] selinux: Enhance selinux to always ignore private inodes Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 23:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: Hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-09 12:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] selinux: Enhance selinux to always ignore private inodes Stephen Smalley
2007-02-09 12:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] sysctl: Fix the selinux_sysctl_get_sid Stephen Smalley
2007-02-09 11:05 ` [PATCH 0/5] sysctl cleanup selinux fixes Andrew Morton
2007-02-09 18:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
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