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SubjectRe: compute_creds fixup in -mm
* Stephen Smalley (sds@epoch.ncsc.mil) wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:28, Chris Wright wrote:
> > * Stephen Smalley (sds@epoch.ncsc.mil) wrote:
> > > I didn't see Chris' patch. I assume that the worst case is unexpected
> > > program failure due to lack of capability, right? The SELinux security
> >
> > The opposite. You'd get a program with non-root euid, but full
> > capability set, and AT_SECURE set false. My patch is below.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant the worst case due to the share/ptrace
> state check being duplicated in SELinux and in commoncap, as opposed to
> being performed once as in Andy's patch.

Ah, indeed.

thanks,
-chris
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