Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.1.43 curious pipe-entries in / (root) | Date | Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:06:17 +0100 (BST) |
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> /* I hope this does not introduce security problems. > * Please check and give me response. > */ > > However, the pipes are created with permissions 600 and with the > "current->fsuid" and "current->fsgid" ownerships.
In which case we need to ensure sys_open() calls on them return -EINVAL as does sys_chown, sys_chmod, sys_fchown and anything else.
> > Also what if / is read only > > AFAIK, the pipes are inserted directly into the "dcache", so the > actual read/write status of the root directory shouldn't make a > difference.
Looks like that.
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