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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/8] exec: Teach prepare_exec_creds how exec treats uids & gids
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:03 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
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> One question, though: why add this, since the repeat calling of the caps
> LSM hook will do this?

I assume it's for the "preserve_creds" case where we don't even end up
setting creds at all.

Yeah, at some point we'll hit a bprm handler that doesn't set
'preserve_creds', and it all does get set in the end, but that's not
statically all that obvious.

I think it makes sense to initialize as much as possible from the
generic code, and rely as little as possible on what the binfmt
handlers end up actually doing.

Linus

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