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Message-ID: <46AC900E.9090405@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:03:10 +0800 From: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com> To: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeremy@...p.org, martin.pitt@...ntu.com, wwoods@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] core_pattern: cleaned up repost/continuing post of core_pattern enhancements Neil Horman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:40:43PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: >> Neil Horman wrote: [...] >> You may want to improve your patches with style-related changes, including >> removing trailing spaces, using tabs instead of spaces, and defining pointers >> like char *ptr instead of char * ptr. >> > I assume this is just a general comment, since as far as I can see, I've > followed those guidelines. Please see the next few emails. >> Also, it is probably good to think how we can "drop privileges" while piping >> the core dump output to an external program. A malicious user can potentially >> use it as a possible backdoor since anything that is executed by "|program" will >> be executed with root privileges. >> > It was my understanding that apport already did this. I haven't looked at apport yet, but are you talking about the userspace portion of apport or the kernel changes in the Ubuntu kernel? Eugene - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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