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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:12:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080610161240.GW30402@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080609171741.GA13403@us.ibm.com>

* Serge E. Hallyn (serue@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> If we decide to get rid of dummy long-term, then it's far less
> distasteful to have it lie and claim the keepcaps worked in the
> meantime.

We should get rid of it ASAP.

> So for 2.6.26 we could have dummy lie, then plan to make capabilities
> the default for 2.6.27?

It is already lying, so this isn't too big a stretch.  I'd expect it not
to help since either capset will fail, or it would fail when it tried
to use the cap after dropping uid.

thanks,
-chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08 13:38 Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-08 15:10 ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 18:06   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 22:34     ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 23:39       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 17:17         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-10  4:26           ` [PATCH] bugfix: was " Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10  5:21             ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 19:12             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-11  0:39               ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10 19:14             ` Chris Wright
2008-06-11  0:37               ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-11 14:21                 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-10 16:12           ` Chris Wright [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-08 12:40 Dmitry Adamushko

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