From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f196.google.com ([209.85.223.196]:33513 "EHLO mail-io0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbcEQU5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2016 16:57:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160517191439.GA29657@www.outflux.net> References: <20160517191439.GA29657@www.outflux.net> Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:57:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] exec: clarify reasoning for euid/egid reset From: Linus Torvalds To: Kees Cook Cc: Jonathan Corbet , David Howells , Serge Hallyn , Willy Tarreau , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > This section of code initially looks redundant, but is required. This > improves the comment to explain more clearly why the reset is needed. Applied. Linus