From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
safford@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:32:39 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0905220932260.6348@tundra.namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090521194706.5050.93139.stgit@dhcp231-142.rdu.redhat.com>
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Eric Paris wrote:
> The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's
> memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of
> executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root
> often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the
> measurements meaningless.
Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-21 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-21 19:47 Eric Paris
2009-05-21 22:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2009-05-21 23:32 ` James Morris [this message]
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2009-05-18 16:01 Eric Paris
2009-05-18 17:52 ` Mimi Zohar
2009-05-20 2:44 ` Eric Paris
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