From: "Stephan Müller" <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Christian Langrock <christian.langrock@secunet.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Crypto_user: Make crypto user API available for all net ns
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:51:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2290757.F5Nm8BLmaV@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <692d6ab1-d737-2683-5e55-b5f838f99b01@secunet.com>
Am Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2017, 16:22:32 CEST schrieb Christian Langrock:
Hi Christian,
> With this patch it's possible to use crypto user API form all
> network namespaces, not only form the initial net ns.
Is this wise?
The crypto_user interface allows root users to change settings in the kernel
with a global scope. For example, you can deregister ciphers, change the prio
of ciphers and so on. All of that is visible on a global scale and thus should
not be possible from namespaces, IMHO.
Ciao
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-13 14:51 UTC|newest]
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2017-07-13 14:22 Christian Langrock
2017-07-13 14:51 ` Stephan Müller [this message]
2017-07-14 4:51 ` Steffen Klassert
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