On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> @@ -1495,6 +1496,15 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
>> #endif
>> #endif
>> {
>> + .procname = "protected_sticky_symlinks",
>> + .data = &protected_sticky_symlinks,
>> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
>> + .mode = 0644,
>> + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
>> + .extra1 = &zero,
>> + .extra2 = &one,
>> + },
>
> Small detail:
>
> Might make sense to change the .mode to 0600, to make it harder
> for unprivileged attack code to guess whether this protection
> (and the resulting audit warning to the administrator) is
> enabled on a system or not.
Sure, I have no problem with that. In addition to this change, what's
the best next step for this patch?
Thanks,
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
ChromeOS Security
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
