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Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com> writes in gmane.linux.kernel > Attached is a trivial patch (extracted from 2.4.33-ow1) that makes > set*uid() kill the current process rather than proceed with -EAGAIN when > the kernel is running out of memory. Apparently, alloc_uid() can't fail > and return anyway due to properties of the allocator, in which case the > patch does not change a thing. But better safe than sorry. > > As you're probably aware, 2.6 kernels are affected to a greater extent, > where set*uid() may also fail on trying to exceed RLIMIT_NPROC. That > needs to be fixed, too. > > Opinions are welcome. Perhaps stupid suggestion: Should there be new signal for 'failure to drop privileges' ? ( perhaps SIGPRIV or is this name free ) By default signal terminates process. By setting this to SIG_IGN this allows deamons handle situation when becoming to user failed and give proper error message. Still unaware root processes are killed and not causing privilge escalation. / Kari Hurtta - 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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