On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:01:37AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
quoted text
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> Look, when chroot was being designed, I think they intended that even root 
> should be unable to get out. They went so far as to say that dot-dot 
> wouldn't let you out; and it doesn't.
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> You were clearly saying that whom you call "they" were the people who 
> designed chroot. And it was you who was claiming in this statement that
> "they" said it.
> 
> The OpenBSD manpage you quoted in this thread states chroot() was added 
> in 4.2BSD, and 4.2BSD was released in 1983.
> 
> You should therefore either bring a source where the people who designed 
> chroot() in 1983 or earlier are stating what you claim they said or 
> admit that you were talking utter bullshit.

chroot() is present in v7, thank you very much.  /usr/sys/sys/sys4.c has

chdir()
{
        chdirec(&u.u_cdir);
}

chroot()
{
        if (suser())
                chdirec(&u.u_rdir);
}

and back then it didn't stop lookups by .. at all - u_rdir is only used
in the beginning of namei() (when pathname starts with /), plus the obvious
refcounting in exit()/newproc().  So give me a break - back when it had
been introduced, it didn't do anything jail-like _at_ _all_.

That check appears only in BSD:
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*     vfs_lookup.c    4.4     03/06/81        */
+/*     vfs_lookup.c    4.5     81/03/09        */
 
 #include "../h/param.h"
 #include "../h/systm.h"
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@
        u.u_segflg = 1;
        eo = 0;
        bp = NULL;
+       if (dp == u.u_rdir && u.u_dent.d_name[0] == '.' &&
+           u.u_dent.d_name[1] == '.' && u.u_dent.d_name[2] == 0)
+               goto cloop;
 
 eloop:

with spectaculary lousy commit message ("lint and a minor fixed") by
wnj.  Feel free to ask Bill Joy WTF he had intended.  At a guess,
more consistent behaviour in chrooted environment (i.e. pathname
resolution looking as if the subtree had been everything).

To talk about root-safety of _anything_ at that point is bloody ridiculous.
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