From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
solar@openwall.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown()
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:00:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090616210015.GA1879@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906161319480.3282@localhost.localdomain>
On 06/16, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown(). This reduces
> > the number of arguments and saves 48 bytes from fs/fcntl.o.
>
> Ok, I know I asked for this, but now I suddenly start worrying about
> whether f_owner.uid/euid are initialized at all for the pid==NULL case?
>
> They used to be initialized to zero, now they are left alone. Are they
> initialized somewhere else earlier?
I think this is fine, but I should have mentioned this in the changelog.
If f_owner.pid == NULL we never use f_owner.uid/euid. Otherwise we have
a bug anyway: we must not send signals if pid was reset to NULL.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 21:05 UTC|newest]
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2009-06-16 20:07 ` [PATCH] shift current_cred() from __f_setown() to f_modown() Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-16 20:17 ` David Howells
2009-06-16 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 21:00 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-06-16 22:56 ` James Morris
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2009-06-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] send_sigio_to_task: sanitize the usage of fown->signum Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-16 23:00 ` James Morris
2009-06-16 23:10 ` David Howells
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