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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Only allow a threaded init to exec from the thread_group_leader
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:48:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060129024831.4474142f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1irs38h5v.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>  If process id namespaces become a reality init stops being
>  terribly special, and becomes something you may have several
>  of running at any one time.  If one of those inits is compromised
>  by a hostile user I having the whole system go down so we can
>  avoid executing a cheap test sounds terribly wrong.  That is
>  why I really care.

Wouldn't it be better to do nothing until/unless there's some code in the
kernel or init which actually needs the change?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-29 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-29  6:18 Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-29  8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-29 10:25   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-29 10:48     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-29 15:24       ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-29 19:32         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-29 21:32         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-30  9:15     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-30 20:41       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] <5AeeD-7xb-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5Aggm-1V6-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5AhYT-4uR-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-29 13:36     ` Bodo Eggert

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