Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:48:40 +0300 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc1-gb4f5550 oops |
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On 11/14, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:17:08PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Suppose that old user_struct/task_group is freed/reused, and the task does > > Shouldn't this old user actually be the root user_struct?
Well, the S_ISUID application can switch ->user from !root_user (note that setuid exec doesn't change ->user), and we also have CAP_SETUID...
But yes, I agree, this all is very unlikely.
Oleg.
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