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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:45:25 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/10] Landlock LSM: Unprivileged sandboxing

On Tue 2016-09-20 19:08:23, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> 
> On 15/09/2016 11:19, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> >> This series is a proof of concept to fill some missing part of seccomp as the
> >> ability to check syscall argument pointers or creating more dynamic security
> >> policies. The goal of this new stackable Linux Security Module (LSM) called
> >> Landlock is to allow any process, including unprivileged ones, to create
> >> powerful security sandboxes comparable to the Seatbelt/XNU Sandbox or the
> >> OpenBSD Pledge. This kind of sandbox help to mitigate the security impact of
> >> bugs or unexpected/malicious behaviors in userland applications.
> >>
> >> The first RFC [1] was focused on extending seccomp while staying at the syscall
> >> level. This brought a working PoC but with some (mitigated) ToCToU race
> >> conditions due to the seccomp ptrace hole (now fixed) and the non-atomic
> >> syscall argument evaluation (hence the LSM hooks).
> > 
> > Long and nice description follows. Should it go to Documentation/
> > somewhere?
> > 
> > Because some documentation would be useful...
> 
> Right, but I was looking for feedback before investing in documentation. :)

Heh. And I was hoping to learn what I'm reviewing. Too bad :-).

								Pavel
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