From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Scott J. Harmon" <harmon@ksu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Re: Linux 2.6.17.4
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:56:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060706235625.GI11588@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060706234918.GB2037@1wt.eu>
* Willy Tarreau (w@1wt.eu) wrote:
> Interestingly, 2.4 tests (arg2 !=0 && arg2 != 1) so from the code changes
> above, it looks like the value 2 was added on purpose, but for what ? Maybe
> the fix is not really correct yet ?
The old code was changed to support a new feature (suid_dumpable
for debugging). The sysctl should support 2 (the new value), but the
prctl can be abused and hence reducing the test to one analgous to 2.4.
This is a correct fix.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-06 22:27 Greg KH
2006-07-06 22:28 ` Greg KH
2006-07-06 22:43 ` Scott J. Harmon
2006-07-06 22:46 ` Greg KH
2006-07-06 22:54 ` Scott J. Harmon
2006-07-07 6:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-06 23:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-06 23:53 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-07-06 23:56 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2006-07-06 23:57 ` Chase Venters
2006-07-06 23:24 ` Chase Venters
2006-07-06 23:54 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-07-07 10:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
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