Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:27:08 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [AppArmor 39/41] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching |
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> It's nice to check for consistency though, so we're adding that. Profile > loading is a trusted operation, at least so far, and so security wise we > don't actually have to care --- if loading an invalid profile can bring down > the system, then that's no worse than an arbitrary module that crashes the > machine. Not sure if there will ever be user loadable profiles; at least at > that point we had to care.
A security system that allows to crash the kernel is a little weird though. It would be better to check. Not that a recursion check is particularly expensive.
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