Re: [PATCH RFC v3 08/10] net, pidfs, coredump: only allow coredumping tasks to connect to coredump socket
From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Date: 2025-05-05 13:08:45
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From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Date: 2025-05-05 13:08:45
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On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM Christian Brauner [off-list ref] wrote:
Make sure that only tasks that actually coredumped may connect to the coredump socket. This restriction may be loosened later in case userspace processes would like to use it to generate their own coredumps. Though it'd be wiser if userspace just exposed a separate socket for that.
This implementation kinda feels a bit fragile to me... I wonder if we could instead have a flag inside the af_unix client socket that says "this is a special client socket for coredumping".