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Message-ID: <20110715053505.GA24870@1wt.eu> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:35:05 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de> Cc: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() Hi Neil, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:30:13PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: (...) > But what do you think of this. It sure that only the process which ignored > the return value from setuid is inconvenienced. (...) I think this is a smart idea. But will the flag be inherited by children over a fork() ? If not, we might as well block fork(), because we can expect a lot of fork+exec situations which are as dangerous as the simple execve(). Regards, Willy
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