From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751042AbWGFXZB (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:25:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751044AbWGFXZB (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:25:01 -0400 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:45831 "HELO relay02.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751038AbWGFXZA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:25:00 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 71.197.50.189 From: Chase Venters To: Greg KH Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17.4 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:24:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton References: <20060706222704.GB2946@kroah.com> <20060706222841.GD2946@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060706222841.GD2946@kroah.com> Organization: Clientec, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607061824.46990.chase.venters@clientec.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:28, Greg KH wrote: > case PR_SET_DUMPABLE: > - if (arg2 < 0 || arg2 > 2) { > + if (arg2 < 0 || arg2 > 1) { > error = -EINVAL; > break; > } Am I staring at this crooked, or not looking deep enough? My manual page for prctl says 2 is valid there. Specifically: Since kernel 2.6.13, the value 2 is also permitted; this causes any binary which normally would not be dumped to be dumped read- able by root only. (See also the description of /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable in proc(5).) ...has something changed, and my manpages don't reflect it? Did I miss a conversation about this? Thanks, Chase