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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au>
Cc: paul@clubi.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chmod of active swap file blocks
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 02:12:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040101021241.31830e30.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10401011905310.31562-100000@marina.lowendale.com.au>

Neale Banks <neale@lowendale.com.au> wrote:
>
> How much of the original problem goes away if swapon(8) were to refuse to
>  activate a file/device which has ownership/mode which it doesn't like?

I think swapon(8) should at least warn when the swapfile has inappropriate
permissions.  It's an obvious and outright security hole.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-01 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-29  4:55 Paul Jakma
2003-12-29  5:16 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-29  9:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-29 17:25   ` Paul Jakma
2004-01-01  8:19     ` Neale Banks
2004-01-01 10:12       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-01 14:10         ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-01 21:40           ` Erik Andersen
2004-01-02  0:43             ` Paul Jakma

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