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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, sds@epoch.ncsc.mil
Subject: Re: [PATCH, local root on 2.4, 2.6?] compute_creds race
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:43:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040409134323.L22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4076F02E.1000809@myrealbox.com>; from luto@myrealbox.com on Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:49:18AM -0700

* Andy Lutomirski (luto@myrealbox.com) wrote:
> The setuid program is now running with uid=euid=500 but full permitted 
> capabilities.

Yes, dropping and regaining the lock is asking for trouble.  Thank you for
catching this.  I don't have an issue with changing the interface name.
I guess the only question I have is if it's better to leave the setuid
handling in the core, and move the newly named hook under the task_lock()?

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-09 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-09 18:49 Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-09 20:43 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-04-09 20:53   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-10  9:16 ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-04-10 15:40   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-10 18:41     ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-04-10 18:59       ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-10 10:32 ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-04-12 18:40   ` Chris Wright

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