lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2012]   [Mar]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
Date
SubjectRe: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file v3
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:15:55PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:02:50PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > I can do that if Andrew agree.
>> >>
>> >> I'm a bit lost.  nnp updates the MNT_NOSUID checks, not the MNT_NOEXEC
>> >> checks.  (And the effects of the two flags is different in selinux for
>> >> historical reasons.)  I'm sure I'm missing something.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Andy, I've no idea what nnp is ;) I was only about to gather those
>> > ISREG/MNT_NOEXEC to one helper since we indeed have a few places in
>> > kernel which do same thing in open-coded manner.
>>
>> Am I not the Andrew you were referring to?
>>
>
> Nope, I meant Andrew Morton /because this patch is for -mm/ ;)
>
> I've been in To: field that's why I replied you about nnp
> (and, btw, what nnp is? not "Net national product" I suppose,
>  this hint wikipedia gave me)

nnp is no_new_privs, which is my patch and is almost, but not quite,
very relevant to this discussion. Hence my confusion ;)

FWIW, since I've touched this code recently, the cleanup you're
suggesting sounds good.

--Andy
--
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2012-03-08 21:27    [W:0.109 / U:0.024 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site