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Message-Id: <1156097640.4051.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:14:00 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@...a.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits
Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 04:38 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer:
> Willy and all,
>
> Attached is a trivial patch (extracted from 2.4.33-ow1) that makes
> set*uid() kill the current process rather than proceed with -EAGAIN when
> the kernel is running out of memory. Apparently, alloc_uid() can't fail
> and return anyway due to properties of the allocator, in which case the
> patch does not change a thing. But better safe than sorry.
Major behaviour change, non-standards compliant and is just an attempt
to wallpaper over problems. Was rejected by previous maintainers
already.
NAK (think /usr/games/banner "NAK")
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