Re: About change of arguments in hooks

From: Crispin Cowan (crispinat_private)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 10:56:40 PDT

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    Greg KH wrote:
    
    >On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:16:58AM -0500, Weiqing Sun wrote:
    >  
    >
    >>I'm thinking of implementing file redirection using LSM hooks, e.g.
    >>The deletion on /opt/2 will be applied to /tmp/2_victim.
    >>    
    >>
    >Why not just use mount to handle this kind of stuff?
    >
    You could do that to induce redirection for specific directories, but I 
    have a hard time seeing how you could do it in general. Assuming that 
    Weiqing was thinking of honeypot purposes, he would presumably want to 
    do redirection of arbitrary files under arbitrary circumstances, e.g. 
    PID 1234 has been flagged as "rogue" and now it's accesses will be 
    redirected.
    
    >  I wouldn't
    >recommend using lsm to handle redirection, but it might be possible with
    >a lot of care.
    >
    OTOH, I agree with Greg that successfully doing redirection from LSM may 
    be problematic. Refer to this thread 
    <http://mail.wirex.com/pipermail/linux-security-module/2001-June:/0859.html> 
    for some history.
    
    Crispin
    
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