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

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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")

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux