From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754943AbYFHSHm (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:07:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753646AbYFHSHd (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:07:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45911 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753340AbYFHSHc (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:07:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:06:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrew Morgan Cc: Dmitry Adamushko , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX Message-Id: <20080608110630.08a45cc6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <484BF662.9070100@kernel.org> References: <1212932321.4675.9.camel@earth> <484BF662.9070100@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:10:26 -0700 Andrew Morgan wrote: > Nacked-by: Andrew G. Morgan > > In a configuration in which you are not using capabilities, what is the > "keep capabilities" operation supposed to do? Lie to you? > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10748 I totally agree with comment 11 there. Quite a number of people have already hit this and more surely will. How can we help them (and hence us)?