Re: [PATCH v2] fs: introduce pipe-only dump mode suid_dumpable=3

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> This patch introduces suid_dumpable=3 to allow privilege-changed processes
>> to be dumped only to a pipe handler (and not directly to disk). The value
>> of suid_dumpable=2 is now deprecated, and attempting to set this sysctl
>> value returns -EINVAL.
>
> Your patch descriptoin is wrong.  Deprecate means something is encouraged
> not to be used not that the functionality is removed.  I think what
> you are trying to say is that the value suid_dumpable=2 is now historic.
>
> Your implementation is absolutely gross.  Reading the value from
> twice from user space??    Is an if statement that hard to code?

I will rework this and resend.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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