On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 09:37 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 09:11 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> >> >> No. The logging daemon thinks it wants to know who the writer is, but >> >> the logging daemon is wrong. It actually wants to know who composed a >> >> log message destined to it. The caller of write(2) may or may not be >> >> the same entity. >> > >> > This works both ways, and doesn't really matter, you are *no* better off >> > w/o this interface. >> > >> >> If this form of SO_PASSCGROUP somehow makes it into a pull request for >> >> Linus, I will ask him not to pull it and/or to revert it. I think >> >> he'll agree that write(2) MUST NOT care who called it. >> > >> > And write() does not, there is no access control check being performed >> > here. This call is the same as getting the pid of the process and >> > crawling /proc with that information, just more efficient and race-free. >> >> Doing it using the pid of writer is wrong. So is doing it with the >> cgroup of the writer. The fact that it's even possible to use the pid >> of the caller of write(2) is a mistake, but that particular mistake >> is, unfortunately, well-enshrined in history. >> >> > >> > I repeat, it is *not* access control. >> > >> >> Sure it is. >> >> Either correct attribution of logs doesn't matter, in which case it >> makes little difference how you do it, or it does matter, in which >> case it should be done right. > > Well journald can *also* get SO_PEERCGROUP and log anomalies if the 2 > differ. That is if the log happens on a connected socket. > > If the log happens on a unix datagram* then SO_PEERCGROUP is not > available because there is no connect(), however write() cannot be used > either, only sendmsg() AFAIK, so the "setuid" binary attack does not > apply. > Or you could only send SCM_CGROUP when the writer asks sendmsg to send it, in which case this whole problem goes away. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
