Re: [PATCH] prctl: Use CAP_SYS_RESOUCE for PR_SET_MM option

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:29:28PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 16:52 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > CAP_SYS_ADMIN is already overloaded left and right,
> > so to have more finegrained access control use
> > CAP_SYS_RESOUCE here.
> > 
> > The CAP_SYS_RESOUCE is chosen because this prctl
> > option allows a current process to adjust some
> > fields of memory map descriptor which rather
> > represent what the process owns: pointers to
> > code, data, stack segments, command line,
> > auxilary vector data and etc.
> 
> Nitpicking: s/CAP_SYS_RESOUCE/CAP_SYS_RESOURCE/ in both the commit
> summary and the commit explanation. (And if you change that you might
> also do a s/auxilary/auxiliary/ in the commit explanation.)

Oh, crap! Thanks Paul, patch was unrefreshed, while I was testing
correct version. Will update.

To Andrew: Please don't pick it up. I'll refresh and send it out
again wtih all Acks.

	Cyrill
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