Re: [PATCH] prlimit,security,selinux: add a security hook for prlimit

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> When SELinux was first added to the kernel, a process could only get
> and set its own resource limits via getrlimit(2) and setrlimit(2), so no
> MAC checks were required for those operations, and thus no security hooks
> were defined for them. Later, SELinux introduced a hook for setlimit(2)
> with a check if the hard limit was being changed in order to be able to
> rely on the hard limit value as a safe reset point upon context
> transitions.

[...]


Queued for 4.11 at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git#next-queue




-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>

_______________________________________________
Selinux mailing list
Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.



[Index of Archives]     [Selinux Refpolicy]     [Linux SGX]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Yosemite Photos]     [Yosemite Camping]     [Yosemite Campsites]     [KDE Users]     [Gnome Users]

  Powered by Linux