Re: [RFC PATCH v1 4/4] firmware loader: don't allow to requestfirmware via relative path

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:30:09AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:01:50PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> >> It isn't a good pratice to request firmware via relative path, also
> >> might have security issue, so don't do it.
> >
> > What would the security issue be?  You are letting the person who build
> > the kernel specify this, so they can put whatever they want in here, a
> > '..' isn't going to keep them from being able to do "bad" things if they
> > really want to.
> 
> In VM case, guest kernel might access host filesystem files via this trick,
> but not sure if it is possible.

How can a ".." do anything with guest kernels that total control over a
path not do?

thanks,

greg k-h
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