Re: [RFC PATCH v8 0/3] Add support for AT_INTERPRETED (was O_MAYEXEC)

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On 09/09/2020 19:13, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 09:19:11AM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>>
>> On 08/09/2020 20:50, Al Viro wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:59:53AM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This height patch series rework the previous O_MAYEXEC series by not
>>>> adding a new flag to openat2(2) but to faccessat2(2) instead.  As
>>>> suggested, this enables to perform the access check on a file descriptor
>>>> instead of on a file path (while opening it).  This may require two
>>>> checks (one on open and then with faccessat2) but it is a more generic
>>>> approach [8].
>>>
>>> Again, why is that folded into lookup/open/whatnot, rather than being
>>> an operation applied to a file (e.g. O_PATH one)?
>>>
>>
>> I don't understand your question. AT_INTERPRETED can and should be used
>> with AT_EMPTY_PATH. The two checks I wrote about was for IMA.
> 
> Once more, with feeling: don't hide that behind existing syscalls.
> If you want to tell LSM have a look at given fs object in a special
> way, *add* *a* *new* *system* *call* *for* *doing* *just* *that*.
> 

Fine, I'll do it. It will look a lot like this one though.



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