linux-kernel - Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.

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Message-ID: <13156243.9761011235654240048.JavaMail.root@ouachita>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:17:20 -0500 (EST)
From:	Joe Malicki <jmalicki@...acarta.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bakerkj@...acarta.com,
	mitz@...acarta.com
Subject: Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.

----- "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:11:54 -0500 (EST)
> Joe Malicki <jmalicki@...acarta.com> wrote:
> >
> 
> wow, good bug report!

Thanks!

> > 
> > Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting
> > the euid of its owner.
> 
> Do you know which euid it _does_ get?  Is it unchanged, or is it
> random
> garbage, or...?

Sorry, It's unchanged.  (Also, as in other reply, this only seems to
happen for setuid to root on multicore, I jumbled words in the original
report)
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