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From: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugfix: was Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:39:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484F1EC4.5050906@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080610191241.GA17311@us.ibm.com>

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Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
+		else
+			current->securebits &=
+				~issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);

| In these last two conditions, don't you need to set *rc_p?

| Oh, or my kernel tree may be out of date, as I seem to recall a recent
| patch initializing error to 0 in sys_prctl(), so this wouldn't
| technically be a problem?  Still would seem correct...

Yes, update your kernel and you will find this defaults to zero. I
thought about redundantly forcing it, but decided that it wasn't worth
the pain of working around the 80-column challenged extra indenting. :-(

Cheers

Andrew
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-11  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08 13:38 [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-08 15:10 ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 18:06   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 22:34     ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 23:39       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 17:17         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-10  4:26           ` [PATCH] bugfix: was " Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10  5:21             ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 19:12             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-11  0:39               ` Andrew G. Morgan [this message]
2008-06-10 19:14             ` Chris Wright
2008-06-11  0:37               ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-11 14:21                 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-10 16:12           ` Chris Wright

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