Re: chmod of active swap file blocks

[Andrew Morton]

Neale Banks <neale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How much of the original problem goes away if swapon(8) were to refuse to
>  activate a file/device which has ownership/mode which it doesn't like?

I think swapon(8) should at least warn when the swapfile has inappropriate
permissions.  It's an obvious and outright security hole.
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