Re: [PATCH] procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm

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On 2023-07-13, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> > > index 486334981e60..08f0969208eb 100644
> > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> > > @@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ int run_syscall(int min, int max)
> > >  		CASE_TEST(chmod_net);         EXPECT_SYSZR(proc, chmod("/proc/self/net", 0555)); break;
> > >  		CASE_TEST(chmod_self);        EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/self", 0555), -1, EPERM); break;
> > >  		CASE_TEST(chown_self);        EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chown("/proc/self", 0, 0), -1, EPERM); break;
> > > +		CASE_TEST(chmod_self_comm);   EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/self/comm", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> > > +		CASE_TEST(chmod_tid_comm);    EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/thread-self/comm", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> > > +		CASE_TEST(chmod_self_environ);EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/self/environ", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> > > +		CASE_TEST(chmod_tid_environ); EXPECT_SYSER(proc, chmod("/proc/thread-self/environ", 0777), -1, EPERM); break;
> 
> > 
> > I'm not a big fan of this, it abuses the nolibc testsuite to test core
> > kernel functionality.
> 
> Yes, this should be dropped.
> We need a minimal patch to fix this. This just makes backporting harder
> and any test doesn't need to be backported.

Alright, I'll drop it in v2 (though I'm not sure why there are tests for
/proc/self and /proc/self/net then).

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>



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