Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:24:53 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] exec: Only allow a threaded init to exec from the thread_group_leader |
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On Ne 29-01-06 02:48:31, Andrew Morton wrote: > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > > > > If process id namespaces become a reality init stops being > > terribly special, and becomes something you may have several > > of running at any one time. If one of those inits is compromised > > by a hostile user I having the whole system go down so we can > > avoid executing a cheap test sounds terribly wrong. That is > > why I really care. > > Wouldn't it be better to do nothing until/unless there's some code in the > kernel or init which actually needs the change?
It is common to do init=/bin/bash, and I guess people are doing it with all kinds of wonderful apps.... Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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