From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Athanasius <link@miggy.org>, Julien TINNES <jt@cr0.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [link@miggy.org: Re: [patch 2/8] personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (CVE-2009-1895)]
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:01:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090719230113.4a4885cf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907191219230.13838@localhost.localdomain>
> These days? We could probably get rid of that idiotic feature. It's simply
> not important enough any more. Does anybody really care? At the same time,
> over years we've grown _other_ personality flags, and some of them are
> still relevant.
If it bugs you enough then a sysfs flag of "personality flags to honour"
is pretty trivial.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-19 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090718202512.GA19587@suse.de>
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907181342500.13838@localhost.localdomain>
2009-07-18 21:28 ` Athanasius
2009-07-19 1:38 ` Julien TINNES
2009-07-19 12:27 ` Athanasius
2009-07-19 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-19 19:39 ` Athanasius
2009-07-19 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-19 19:55 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-19 22:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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