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Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:55:23 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@...il.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] tty: Introduce no_tty and use it in selinux

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:08:34 -0600
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> While researching the tty layer pid leaks I found a weird case in
> selinux when we drop a controlling tty because of inadequate
> permissions we don't do the normal hangup processing.  Which is a
> problem if it happens the session  leader has exec'd something that
> can no longer access the tty.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
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