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Message-ID: <20120226212811.GA17342@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:28:11 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: kernel.dmesg_restrict sysctl change submitted to OpenVZ
FWIW, I've just submitted the "make kernel.dmesg_restrict sysctl
tri-state and container-aware" change from our latest kernel patch on
Owl-current to OpenVZ (the relevant upstream):
http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2197
"Hi,
The kernel.dmesg_restrict sysctl was added to mainline kernels and
backported to RHEL5 and RHEL6 by Red Hat. One of its primary purposes
was to protect in-kernel addresses from being shown to non-root users
and thus hopefully to make exploitation of certain kinds of kernel bugs
more difficult or/and less reliable.
With OpenVZ containers, however, the in-container dmesg is usually
empty, and only sometimes it contains useful info: that container's
iptables -j LOG output.
The attached patch makes kernel.dmesg_restrict tri-state:
0: no restriction;
1: non-root users can't access dmesg, root users on both hardware node
and in containers can access dmesg (seeing different log records as
appropriate);
2: non-root users and any user and root in containers can't access
dmesg, only root on the hardware node can access dmesg.
2 corresponds to behavior currently seen with 1, whereas the behavior
with 1 becomes more relaxed. 1 is then a reasonable default setting for
a distro (that's what we use on Owl now).
Please consider applying this change to your currently maintained kernel
branches.
Thanks,
Alexander"
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