Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:47:05 +0200 |
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On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:28, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > sounds like a good argument to get the setuid functions marked > > __must_check in glibc... > > There are too many false positives. E.g., in a SUID binaries switching > back from a non-root UID to root will not fail. Very common.
Well, I would say it clearly depends on the actual kernel implementation if that can fail or not. So userspace should really always check.
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