Re: Leaking Path in XFS's ioctl interface(missing LSM check)

[James Morris]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, Dave Chinner wrote:

> Sure, but there are so many CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only ioctls in the kernel
> that have no LSM coverage that this is not an isolated problem that
> people setting up such systems have to deal with. 

I could be missing something here, but all ioctls are mediated by LSM at a 
high level (security_file_ioctl). Some problematic ones are singled out at 
that point by LSMs for special handling.


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James Morris
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