Re: [PATCH] exec: Only allow a threaded init to exec from the thread_group_leader

On Ne 29-01-06 02:48:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >
> >  If process id namespaces become a reality init stops being
> >  terribly special, and becomes something you may have several
> >  of running at any one time.  If one of those inits is compromised
> >  by a hostile user I having the whole system go down so we can
> >  avoid executing a cheap test sounds terribly wrong.  That is
> >  why I really care.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to do nothing until/unless there's some code in the
> kernel or init which actually needs the change?

It is common to do init=/bin/bash, and I guess people are doing it
with all kinds of wonderful apps....
								Pavel
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