From: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bakerkj@metacarta.com, mitz@metacarta.com
Subject: Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:17:20 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13156243.9761011235654240048.JavaMail.root@ouachita> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225162836.63fce3c4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
----- "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:11:54 -0500 (EST)
> Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com> wrote:
> >
>
> wow, good bug report!
Thanks!
> >
> > Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting
> > the euid of its owner.
>
> Do you know which euid it _does_ get? Is it unchanged, or is it
> random
> garbage, or...?
Sorry, It's unchanged. (Also, as in other reply, this only seems to
happen for setuid to root on multicore, I jumbled words in the original
report)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <10783026.9717361235603356623.JavaMail.root@ouachita>
2009-02-25 23:11 ` BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't Joe Malicki
2009-02-26 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-26 13:17 ` Joe Malicki [this message]
2009-02-26 12:06 ` Joe Malicki
2009-02-26 16:06 ` Hugh Dickins
[not found] <15171620.10049841236049960269.JavaMail.root@ouachita>
2009-03-03 3:16 ` Joe Malicki
2009-03-03 11:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-03-04 1:28 ` Joe Malicki
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