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Date:   Thu, 10 May 2018 13:01:13 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/24] debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is
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On Thu 2018-04-19 15:35:47, David Howells wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>=20
> > >  (1) chmod and chown are disallowed on debugfs objects (though the ro=
ot dir
> > >      can be modified by mount and remount, but I'm not worried about =
that).
> >=20
> > 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 ti=
me.
>=20
> It allows someone to give everyone access to files that should perhaps on=
ly be
> accessible by root.  Besides, if you disable lockdown then you can do thi=
s 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
--=20
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
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