On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:44 AM Jürg Billeter <j@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 18:26 +0200, Jann Horn wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:01 AM Jürg Billeter <j@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c > > > index 38509dc1f77b..264de630d548 100644 > > > --- a/kernel/sys.c > > > +++ b/kernel/sys.c > > > > [...] > > > + case PR_SET_KILLABLE: > > > + if (arg2 != 1 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5) > > > + return -EINVAL; > > > + me->signal->flags &= ~SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE; > > > + break; > > > > I don't have an opinion on this patchset otherwise, but should this > > prctl maybe block PR_SET_KILLABLE if you're actually the real init > > process? This seems like it could potentially lead to weird things. > > While I don't expect global init to use this, I can't think of a good > reason to disallow it in the kernel. Do you have specific concerns or > is the code in kernel/fork.c the only reason? No, I don't have any other specific concerns. > I prefer avoiding special cases unless really required. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
