Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:39:26 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX |
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On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:34:44 -0700 Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> wrote:
> | On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:10:26 -0700 Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> > wrote: > | > |> Nacked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> > |> > |> In a configuration in which you are not using capabilities, what is the > |> "keep capabilities" operation supposed to do? Lie to you? > |> > |> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10748 > | > | I totally agree with comment 11 there. Quite a number of people have > already > | hit this and more surely will. How can we help them (and hence us)? > > What do people think about comment #8 from Stephen Smalley?: > > The dummy module is generally in the untenable position of having to lie > to userspace or break the existing capability-related system call > interface. It should just go away, and make capability the default > module (w/ stubs for the rest of the LSM hooks as with dummy). Then > CONFIG_SECURITY=n will yield the same result as CONFIG_SECURITY=y w/o > any further options.
(removed pgp crap, undid top-posting. Your emails are very hard to reply to)
It's a fine comment, but I am not knowledgeable enough in this area to say whether it's a desirable thing to do for 2.6.26.
I fear that nothing will happen, and we'll end up wasting a lot of peoples' time sending hey-why-did-my-dhcp-break reports.
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