Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits

Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 04:38 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer:
> Willy and all,
> 
> Attached is a trivial patch (extracted from 2.4.33-ow1) that makes
> set*uid() kill the current process rather than proceed with -EAGAIN when
> the kernel is running out of memory.  Apparently, alloc_uid() can't fail
> and return anyway due to properties of the allocator, in which case the
> patch does not change a thing.  But better safe than sorry.

Major behaviour change, non-standards compliant and is just an attempt
to wallpaper over problems. Was rejected by previous maintainers
already.

NAK  (think /usr/games/banner "NAK")

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