On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 08:37 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Jamie Strandboge <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I forgot to reiterate: the above is true *unless* there is another
> > non-DAC, non-
> > MAC kernel mediation (eg, does the kernel only allow modifying the 'comm'
> > value
> > of its own threads? If so, then the rule would be safe to add to the
> > default
> > abstraction (though we should document that it is safe)).
> > 
> Thanks for your help Jamie on thinking through the implications of this - I
> really highly appreciate!
> For the given interface the v2 should be safe see e.g.
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
> Quoting from there: "... A thread may modify *its* comm value, or that of
> any of other thread *in the same thread group* ..."

Thanks for investigating this. +1 on adding this it the libvirt-qemu
abstraction:

# Per man(5) proc, the kernel enforces that a thread may
# only modify its comm value or those in its thread group.
owner @{PROC}/@{pid}/task/@{tid}/comm rw,

-- 
Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com

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