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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/groups.c: consider about NULL for 'group_info' in all related extern functions
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:04:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130924120429.GA2366@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524114B8.3070903@asianux.com>

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:27:36PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> For real world, /sbin/init will call setgroups, so user space 'help'
> kernel itself to protect this issue, but I think, we don't only depend
> on the user space help checking.
> 
> The proof is below:
> 
>   [root@gchenlinux tmp]# grep setgroups /sbin/*
>   Binary file /sbin/init matches
>   Binary file /sbin/rpc.statd matches
>   Binary file /sbin/rsyslogd matches
>   Binary file /sbin/runuser matches
> 
> From reading kernel source code, kernel itself does not intend to set
> 'group_info', it is triggered by user space or another kernel mode
> sub-systems.

Can you please demonstrate such failure?  You can tell kernel to
execute a given binary instead of init with "init=" param.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20  3:01 Chen Gang
2013-08-20  3:03 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-03  5:23   ` Chen Gang
2013-09-23 15:06 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-24  3:42   ` Chen Gang
2013-09-24  4:06     ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-24  4:27       ` Chen Gang
2013-09-24 12:04         ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-09-25  0:49           ` Chen Gang
2013-09-25  0:58             ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-25  1:06               ` Chen Gang
2013-09-25  1:14                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-25  1:47                   ` Chen Gang
2013-09-25  4:34                     ` Chen Gang
2013-09-26  5:58                       ` Chen Gang
2013-09-26  6:30                         ` Chen Gang
2013-09-26 13:15                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-27  1:30                             ` Chen Gang
2013-09-27  3:36                               ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-27  7:16                                 ` Chen Gang
2013-09-27 11:53                                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-27 12:19                                     ` Chen Gang
2013-09-29  2:50                                       ` Chen Gang

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