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SubjectRe: Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do_wait
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> I believe it's something to do with the binfmt driver needing to access files
> in the old security context between calling flush_old_exec() and calling
> install_exec_creds() [compute_creds() as was]. It can't do some of the
> accesses before calling flush_old_exec() because it has to do funky things
> with mmap().

This doesn't make too much sense to me off hand. These accesses must
already be specially magical for unreadable setuid (--s) files to work.


Thanks,
Roland


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