Re: [PATCH] exec: Weaken dumpability for secureexec

From: Tom Horsley
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 07:12:07 EST


On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 01:04:44 -0600
Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> > This weakens dumpability back to checking only for uid/gid changes in
> > current (which is useless), but userspace depends on dumpability not
> > being tied to secureexec.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528633
> >
> > Reported-by: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Seems right, any chance we could get a tested-by: Tom? (Did we already
> get that?)

I didn't test it myself, but all I'd do is run the test program
I've attached to the bugzilla above which is trivial compared
to be learning how to patch and build kernels. So it would be
much simpler for someone with the kernel already built to
extract the tarball and type make :-).