Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:52:59 +0100 |
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Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 20:21 +0200, ysgrifennodd Willy Tarreau: > Arjan proposed to add a __must_check on the set*uid() function in glibc. > I think that if killing the program is what makes you nervous, we could > at least print a warning in the kernel logs so that the admin of a machine > being abused has a chance to detect what's going on. Would you accept > something like this ?
That ratelimited doesn't sound unreasonable - you want to know its happening whatever the cause. You could do it with the kernel or with the audit daemon I guess.
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