Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] csu: Fix standard fds' mode

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 20/04/23 09:06, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 7:47 AM Adhemerval Zanella Netto 
> <adhemerval.zane...@linaro.org <mailto:adhemerval.zane...@linaro.org>> wrote:
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>     I am not really sure how effective is this hardening, it seems more a
>     development one to enforce that system daemon are spawned correctly.
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> Exactly, my understanding is that it is a futile exercise ..if one sufficient 
> privilege at that stage one can do whatever is desired..  why even bother 
> messing with the standard fds..

I don't have a strong opinion, but I tend to agree that this hardening does
not add much specially now that we have a lot of granular ways to limit 
process execution (such as capabilities, seccomp, etc.).