[PATCH 03/12] pid: get ppid pid_t of task in init_pid_ns safely

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 13/12/11, John Johansen wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 06:47 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:59PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:37:09PM -0700, John Johansen wrote:
> >>> On 08/30/2013 12:56 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 07:21:55PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >>>>> On 08/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >>>> Most of the instances are current, but the one called from apparmour is
> >>>> stored.  I've just learned that this is bad and someone else just chimed
> >>>> in that they have a patch to remove it...
> >>>
> >>> the apparmor case isn't actually stored long term. The stored task will be
> >>> a parameter that was passed into an lsm hook and the buffer that it is
> >>> stored in dies before the hook is done. Its temporarily stored in the
> >>> struct so that it can be passed into the lsm_audit fn, and printed into an
> >>> allocated audit buffer. The text version in the audit buffer is what will
> >>> exist beyond the hook.
> >>>
> >>> There are three patches, I'll reply them below once I have finished rebasing
> >>> them to apply to the current tree instead of my dev tree.
> >>
> >> John, thanks for this context and fix.  That helps simplify things.
> > 
> > John, What's the status of this set of 3 patches?  I don't see them
> > upstream.
> > 
> they are part of the security tree merge in 3.13
> 
> 51775fe apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain()
> 4a7fc30 apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging
> 61e3fb8 apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct
> dd0c6e8 apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting

Ok, cool, so they will be upstream by the time I'll need them.  Thanks!

- RGB

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