linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix prlimit64 for suid/sgid processes

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:59:21 +1000
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kacper Kornet <kornet@...k.edu.pl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix prlimit64 for suid/sgid processes

On 1/27/11, Kacper Kornet <kornet@...k.edu.pl> wrote:
> Since check_prlimit_permission always fails in the case of SUID/GUID
> processes, such processes are not able to read or set their own limits.
> This commit changes this by assuming that process can always read/change
> its own limits.

Shouldn't this be fixed in check_prlimit_permissions() instead of in the caller?

     Linus
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