Re: [PATCH] classes/sanity: check for suid root command evility

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 29 July 2013 18:43:32 Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 7/26/13 5:48 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > Some users have been found to have an unnamed third-party piece of
> > software installed which sets chmod, chown and mknod as suid root as
> > part of its installation process. This interferes with the operation of
> > pseudo and can result in files really being owned by root within the
> > build output, and therefore breaks the build, apart from being a
> > security issue. Check for this and bail out early if it is found.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Should these items be added to the buildtools-tarball target?  It might help
> avoid the problem in the same way we already do to detect the bad make,
> tar, etc..

To be honest I'd rather not try to work around misconfiguration such as this.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre