On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So learn this pattern: every time you use chroot, add a simple > > chdir("/"); > > immediately after the chroot call. .. btw, also make sure that you close all non-essential file descriptors. Having any open directory file descriptors pointing to outside the chroot is also a classic escape. Even then, escaping chroot is usually fairly easy. Making a escape-proof chroot is really quite hard. Basically impossible if you allow root. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html