Re: [PATCH 24/24] debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 10 2018 - 07:01:24 EST


On Thu 2018-04-19 15:35:47, David Howells wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > (1) chmod and chown are disallowed on debugfs objects (though the root dir
> > > can be modified by mount and remount, but I'm not worried about that).
> >
> > This has nothing to do with the lockdown goals, right? I find chown of
> > such files quite nice, to allow debugging without doing sudo all the time.
>
> It allows someone to give everyone access to files that should perhaps only be
> accessible by root. Besides, if you disable lockdown then you can do this if
> you want.

As I said this has nothing to do with lockdown, so does not belong in
this series. (And besides, it is bad idea.)

Pavel
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