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SubjectRe: Thoughts on credential switching
On 03/27/2014 02:01 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Essentially, it's a performance problem. knfsd has override_creds,
> and it can cache struct cred. But userspace doing the same thing
> (i.e. impersonating a user) has to do setresuid, setresgid, and
> setgroups, which kills performance, since it results in something like
> five RCU callbacks per impersonation round-trip.

Do you mean setfsuid instead of setresuid?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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