Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762082AbXITISo (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:18:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761803AbXITIQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:59905 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761789AbXITIQM (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:12 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <46F1F2EE.1010904@kernel.org> References: <46F1F2EE.1010904@kernel.org> <20070919161749.8334.26064.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20070919161805.8334.96808.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Andrew Morgan Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, casey@schaufler-ca.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 22.1.50 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:15:15 +0100 Message-ID: <10709.1190276115@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 544 Lines: 14 Andrew Morgan wrote: > OOC If we were to simply drop support for one process changing the > capabilities of another, would we need this patch? Well, the patch could be less, but there's still the possibility of a kernel service wanting to override the capabilities mask. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/