Re: [PATCH RFC v3 08/10] net, pidfs, coredump: only allow coredumping tasks to connect to coredump socket

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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 16:06:40 +0200
> On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 03:08:07PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Make sure that only tasks that actually coredumped may connect to the
> > > coredump socket. This restriction may be loosened later in case
> > > userspace processes would like to use it to generate their own
> > > coredumps. Though it'd be wiser if userspace just exposed a separate
> > > socket for that.
> > 
> > This implementation kinda feels a bit fragile to me... I wonder if we
> > could instead have a flag inside the af_unix client socket that says
> > "this is a special client socket for coredumping".
> 
> Should be easily doable with a sock_flag().

This restriction should be applied by BPF LSM.

It's hard to loosen such a default restriction as someone might
argue that's unexpected and regression.




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