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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:51:51 +0100
From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, 
	Mickaël Salaün <mickael.salaun@....gouv.fr>, 
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v14 05/10] fs,landlock: Support filesystem access-control

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 5:50 PM Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net> wrote:
> On 26/02/2020 21:29, Jann Horn wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 5:03 PM Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net> wrote:
> >> +static inline u32 get_mem_access(unsigned long prot, bool private)
> >> +{
> >> +       u32 access = LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_MAP;
> >> +
> >> +       /* Private mapping do not write to files. */
> >> +       if (!private && (prot & PROT_WRITE))
> >> +               access |= LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_WRITE;
> >> +       if (prot & PROT_READ)
> >> +               access |= LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_READ;
> >> +       if (prot & PROT_EXEC)
> >> +               access |= LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_EXECUTE;
> >> +       return access;
> >> +}
[...]
> However, I'm not sure this hook is useful for now. Indeed, the process
> still need to have a file descriptor open with the right accesses.

Yeah, agreed.

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