Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2018 11:13:50 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] exec: Set file unwritable before LSM check |
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > The LSM check should happen after the file has been confirmed to be > unchanging. Without this, we could have a ToCToU issue between the > LSM verification and the actual contents of the file later.
Can we please not add random crazy six-letter acronyms that nobody uses outside of a very small community?
The point of a commit message is to *explain*, not confuse.
Linus
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