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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:01:17 -0700
From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 01/15] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve
from granting privs
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:01:46 -0500
> Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
>>
>> With this set, a lot of dangerous operations (chroot, unshare, etc)
>> become a lot less dangerous because there is no possibility of
>> subverting privileged binaries.
>
> The changelog doesn't explain the semantics of the new syscall.
> There's a comment way-down-there which I guess suffices, if you hunt
> for it.
>
> And the changelog doesn't explain why this is being added. Presumably
> seccomp_filter wants/needs this feature but whowhatwherewhenwhy? Spell
> it all out, please.
>
> The new syscall mode will be documented in the prctl manpage. Please
> cc linux-man@...r.kernel.org and work with Michael on getting this
> done?
This has been bugging me for awhile. Is there any interest in moving
the manpages into the kernel source tree? Then there could be a
general requirement that new APIs get documented when they're written.
(There are plenty of barely- or incompletely-documented syscalls.
futex and relatives come to mind.)
--Andy
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