Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:45:39 -0400 | From | "Albert Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [TOMOYO 5/9] Memory and pathname management functions. |
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On 6/21/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > >> It's really not worth getting bothered by. Truth is, big > > >> giant > > >> pathnames break lots of stuff already, both kernel and > > >> userspace. > > > > > >> Just look in /proc for some nice juicy kernel breakage: > > >> cwd, exe, fd/*, maps, mounts, mountstats, root, smaps > > > > > >Well, but we should be fixing that, not adding more. And /proc is > > >info-only, while this is security related code. > > > > Security tools read from /proc, so /proc is security-related. > > If some tool relies on pathnames in /proc, that tool is broken... as > is /proc. We should be fixing that.
Running TOMOYO or AppArmor fixes the bug. :-) You can't get long paths that break /proc if you are running either. Therefore, one of those is required. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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