Re: [PATCH 1/1] fanotify: check permissions when creating file descriptor

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
<mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat 19-04-14 22:53:53, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>> When monitoring a directory or a mount with the fanotify API
>>> the call to fanotify_init checks,
>>>  * the process has cap_sys_admin capability
>>>
>>> The call to fanotify_mark checks,
>>>  * the process has read authorization for directory or mount
>>>
>>> A directory or mount may contain files for which the process
>>> has no read or write authorization.
>>> Yet when reading from the fanotify file descriptor, structures
>>> fanotify_event_metadata are returned, which contain a file
>>> descriptor for these files, and will allow to read or write.
>>>
>>> The patch adds an authorization check for read and write
>>> permission. In case of missing permission, reading from the
>>> fanotify file descriptor returns EACCES.
>>   OK, am I right you are concerned about a situation where fanotify group
>> descriptor is passed to an unpriviledged process which handles all the
>> incoming events? I'm asking because the permission checking can be
>> relatively expensive (think of acls) so we better do it for a reason.
>> I'd prefer to hear from Eric what the original intention regarding
>> permissions was...
>
> If I understand correctly, passing to an unprivileged process is the

sorry: s/is the/is not the/
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