[Bug 42704] execve may return EAGAIN on v3.1 or later

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42704





--- Comment #2 from KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>  2012-04-18 00:23:10 ---
Hmm..

I'm not Vasiliy and I couldn't add him to cc list (I don't know why).
But maybe I can answer this.

Now, many many applications don't check the return code and this ignorance may
make critical security issue. set*id() is usually used for dropping root
privilege 
 and then a failure mean application run untrusted code w/ root privilege.
that's dangerous. then, set*id() should ignore rlimit and always can drop a
privilege.

In the other hand, execve() is used for getting a privilege. then a failure is
not security threat.

Next, applications still should check set*uid() return value because it may run
on older kernel.

thank you.

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