Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:45:15 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 09:28 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > sounds like a good argument to get the setuid functions marked > > __must_check in glibc... > > There are too many false positives. E.g., in a SUID binaries switching > back from a non-root UID to root will not fail.
that is not entirely clear; there is apparently a memory allocation in this codepath which can fail (the patch in this thread is patching that).....
> Very common. > -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com
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