Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751706AbZGSWBl (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:01:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751419AbZGSWBk (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:01:40 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:41387 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321AbZGSWBj (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:01:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:01:13 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Athanasius , Julien TINNES , linux-kernel , Greg KH , Tavis Ormandy , Christoph Hellwig , Kees Cook , Eugene Teo Subject: Re: [link@miggy.org: Re: [patch 2/8] personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (CVE-2009-1895)] Message-ID: <20090719230113.4a4885cf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20090718202512.GA19587@suse.de> <20090718212812.GI6722@miggy.org> <4A6278FD.20807@cr0.org> <20090719122701.GJ6722@miggy.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 14 > These days? We could probably get rid of that idiotic feature. It's simply > not important enough any more. Does anybody really care? At the same time, > over years we've grown _other_ personality flags, and some of them are > still relevant. If it bugs you enough then a sysfs flag of "personality flags to honour" is pretty trivial. Alan -- 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/