Thread (77 messages) 77 messages, 12 authors, 2011-05-29

[PATCH 3/5] v2 seccomp_filters: Enable ftrace-based system callfiltering

From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2011-05-13 15:29:27
Also in: linux-mips, linuxppc-dev

... If you can be completely stateless its easier, but there's
a reason that stacking security modules is hard.  Serge has tried in
the
past and both dhowells and casey schaufler are working on it right
now.
Stacking is never as easy as it sounds   :)
For a bad example of trying to allow alternate security models
look at NetBSD's kauth code :-)

NetBSD also had issues where some 'system call trace' code
was being used to (try to) apply security - unfortunately
it worked by looking at the user-space buffers on system
call entry - and a multithreaded program can easily arrange
to update them after the initial check!
For trace/event type activities this wouldn't really matter,
for security policy it does.
(I've not looked directly at these event points in linux)

	David
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