From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/sys.c: fix and improve control flow in __sys_setres[ug]id()
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:47:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230215124747.6f8df3c4675517eacf1e9a39@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230215131807.293556-1-omosnace@redhat.com>
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:18:07 +0100 Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> wrote:
> 1. First determine if CAP_SET[UG]ID is required and only then call
> ns_capable_setid(), to avoid bogus LSM (SELinux) denials.
Can we please have more details on the selinux failures? Under what
circumstances? What is the end-user impact?
Because a fix for "bogus LSM (SELinux) denials" sounds like something
which should be backported into earlier kernels, but there simply isn't
sufficient information here for others to decide on this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-15 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-15 13:18 Ondrej Mosnacek
2023-02-15 20:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-02-16 16:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-02-17 16:18 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2023-02-17 16:14 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
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