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Message-ID: <CAJHCu1K-xZXaXh38qYaNzJBr+USVxvsaqOReZjtnchxVOyYnww@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:43:47 +0100 From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com> To: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Protected O_CREAT open in sticky directories 2017-11-24 11:53 GMT+01:00 David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>: > From: Alan Cox >> Sent: 22 November 2017 16:52 >> >> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:01:46 +0100 >> Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com> wrote: >> >> > Disallows O_CREAT open missing the O_EXCL flag, in world or >> > group writable directories, even if the file doesn't exist yet. >> > With few exceptions (e.g. shared lock files based on flock()) >> >> Enough exceptions to make it a bad idea. >> >> Firstly if you care this much *stop* having shared writable directories. >> We have namespaces, you don't need them. You can give every user their >> own /tmp etc. > > Looks like a very bad idea to me as well. > > Doesn't this stop all shell redirects into a shared /tmp ? > I'm pretty sure most programs use O_CREAT | O_TRUNC for output > files - they'll all stop working. If some program does such a thing, that's a potential vulnerability. With "protected_hardlinks" you are, in most cases, safe. But, still, that program has a bug and having this feature enabled will help you notice it soon. For that matter, I'm using this patch on my system and I don't have any program behaving like this. > If there are some directories where you need to force O_EXCL you > need to make it a property of the directory, not the kernel. > > David >
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