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bug #23043: securityfs not recognized as local filesystem

Submitted by:  Jamie Strandboge <jdstrand>
Submitted on:  Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:15:06 PM UTC  
 
Category: ReportingSeverity: 5-Critical
Item Group: Runtime errorStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: ClosedOperating System: Any Linux

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Mon 08 Sep 2008 06:30:37 PM UTC, comment #2:

Added support for fuse's filesystems and for securityfs in revision 1.21 of Linux gen_mounts.

Instead of adding support for the admin to define local and non-local filesystems (which is somewhat tricky) I've added a new configuration variable in tigerrc (Tiger_FSScan_Unknown) that allows administrators to disable the warning related to unknown filesystems and modified the following
scripts to use it:
- scripts/check_known
- scripts/check_perms
- scripts/find_files
- systems/Linux/2/getdisks
The default behaviour (in the provided tigerrc and in the code), if the variable is not set is to warn admins since unknown filesystems might be a security issue (rootkit?)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña <jfs>
Project Administrator
Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:19:58 PM UTC, comment #1:

fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon is another one that was added to Ubuntu. Perhaps these local filesystems should be more easily configurable (esp. in the case of fuse filesystems).

Jamie Strandboge <jdstrand>
Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:15:06 PM UTC, original submission:

securityfs is a virtual filesystem provided in GNU/Linux 2.6.14 kernels and later. You can read about it more here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/153366/

Ubuntu uses the filesystem, and when installing 1:3.2.2-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu, the following occurs in the logs (daily):

--CONFIG-- [con010c] Filesystem 'securityfs' used by 'securityfs' is not recognised as a local filesystem

Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiger/+bug/155211 for details.

Jamie Strandboge <jdstrand>

 

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