Re: [RFC 2/2] prctl: PR_SET_MM -- Introduce PR_SET_MM_MAP operation

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:44:50AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
...
> >
> > The file can have a suid bit, so after executing it we may lose ability
> > to attach to it. To check that we can check that uid and gid is zero
> > in a current userns (local root).
> >
> > What else do we need to check?
> 
> Yeah, I think all the checks are sufficient, but I (and Julien) are
> still trying to think about side-effects.
> 
> It would be nice if these checks (like the rlimit checks) were merged
> into some common helper. That way if something changes in the exec
> path, it won't go missed in the c/r path.

For rlimit I've done a separate helper in new rfc series, please take a look.
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