Re: [PATCH v5] fs: make dumpable=2 require fully qualified path

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:03:27 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Instead of introducing a suid_dumpable=3 mode and breaking all users
> of mode 2, this only disables the unsafe portion of mode 2 (writing to
> disk via relative path).

It would be nicer to generate the warning at configuration time rather than
at core-dumping time.  I have a feeling that's Hard To Do, but why?
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