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Message-ID: <20071114174840.GA14193@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:48:40 +0300
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@....co.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1-gb4f5550 oops
On 11/14, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:17:08PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Suppose that old user_struct/task_group is freed/reused, and the task does
>
> Shouldn't this old user actually be the root user_struct?
Well, the S_ISUID application can switch ->user from !root_user (note that
setuid exec doesn't change ->user), and we also have CAP_SETUID...
But yes, I agree, this all is very unlikely.
Oleg.
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