Re: [link@miggy.org: Re: [patch 2/8] personality: fixPER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (CVE-2009-1895)]

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Jul 19 2009 - 18:02:17 EST


> These days? We could probably get rid of that idiotic feature. It's simply
> not important enough any more. Does anybody really care? At the same time,
> over years we've grown _other_ personality flags, and some of them are
> still relevant.

If it bugs you enough then a sysfs flag of "personality flags to honour"
is pretty trivial.

Alan
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