Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:25:50 +0400 | From | Solar Designer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits |
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 06:04:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Distributors have already begun to patch userland to check for error > returns. Arguably, this is the correct approach, but I fear it takes > far too long to fix all callers.
My opinion is that both userland apps need to (be patched to) check for error returns from set*[ug]id() and the kernel must not let these calls fail-and-return when the caller is appropriately privileged.
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