Re: [PATCH] signals: check_kill_permission: don't check creds ifsame_thread_group()

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Mon May 17 2010 - 21:26:08 EST


Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>

I concur that there is no real security benefit from checking uids for any
CLONE_VM case. But there is also no reason to change the old behavior in
this corner for any case but CLONE_THREAD.


Thanks,
Roland
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