Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] seccomp: Sysctl to configure actions that are allowed to be logged

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Aug 11 2017 - 15:35:47 EST


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/11/2017 02:17 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> One thought here: should "kill" be always forced on during a write?
>> This flag effectively cannot be disabled, so listing it (or not) in
>> the sysctl may be confusing...
>
> "kill" can be silenced in the current implementation. Lets hammer out
> whether or not that's the right thing to do and then we can discuss the
> sysctl behavior on write. I don't personally have any concerns about an
> admin being able to silence RET_KILL logs but let me know if you are
> against it.

Oh right, this is fine. Yeah, as long as the default is to log it
(which it is) I'm fine. Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security