[DGD] Kernel Lib Wiztool/Auto security

[Raymond Jennings]

As far as the auto object, DGD's architecture is that all objects besides
the driver and the auto object itself inherit the auto object.  This is
part of DGD's api and has nothing to do with the kernel library's design.


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com>wrote:

> The wiztool does the checks on behalf of the owner of the wiztool and not
> the creator of the object.
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> This is useful if you have a wiztool created by System, but owned by the
> wizard in question.
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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Gary Preston <gary at mups.co.uk> wrote:
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>> I've been reading through the kernel library source to get a better
>> understanding of the security measures it takes and why (that and the
>> various docs on the phantasmal site). Whilst doing so, I noticed that the
>> kernel/lib/wiztool has numerous functions which appear to partially
>> duplicate the auto object security checks.
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>> For example, wiztool clone_object checks path for /kernel/ or read access
>> before invoking the parent class clone_object function on the auto object
>> which repeats those checks plus a number of additional checks.
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>> Is there ever a case when the wiztool object would not inherit from the
>> auto object? Or is there another reason behind the wiztool duplicating some
>> of the security checks that the auto object will perform anyway?
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>> Cheers,
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>> Gary
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