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

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Tue May 17 12:24:34 EST 2011


On Mon, 16 May 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > Not really.
> > 
> > Firstly, what is the security goal of these restrictions? [...]
> 
> To do what i described above? Namely:
> 
>  " Sandboxed code should only be allowed to open files in /home/sandbox/, /lib/
>    and /usr/lib/ "

These are access rules, they don't really describe a high-level security 
goal.  How do you know it's ok to open everything in these directories?


- James
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