linux-kernel - Re: Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:28:44 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: selinux_bprm_committed_creds() && signals/do_wait

On 04/29, David Howells wrote:
>
> From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] SELinux: Don't flush inherited SIGKILL during execve()
>
> Don't flush inherited SIGKILL during execve() in SELinux's post cred commit
> hook.  This isn't really a security problem: if the SIGKILL came before the
> credentials were changed, then we were right to receive it at the time, and
> should honour it; if it came after the creds were changed, then we definitely
> should honour it; and in any case, all that will happen is that the process
> will be scrapped before it ever returns to userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

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