Re: more thoughts on a new jail() system call

Shaya Potter (spotter@cs.columbia.edu)
19 Jul 2002 18:48:35 -0400


On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 20:21, David Wagner wrote:
> Shaya Potter wrote:
> >sys_mknod) J - Need FIFO ability, everything else not.
>
> Beware the ability to pass file descriptors across Unix
> domain sockets. This should probably be restricted somehow.
> Along similar lines, you didn't mention sendmsg() and
> recvmsg(), but the fd-passing parts should probably be
> restricted.

not sure there has to be anything restricted, more so than the
filesystem restrictions already. As from what I can tell from Stevens
there are 2 ways to pass a fd over an AF_UNIX socket. either socketpair
(parent/child relationship i.e. both in jail) or a named socket, which
then its constrained to the jailed FS, and therefore only processes in
that particular jail have access to it.

or am I wrong?

thanks,

shaya potter

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