On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:03:27 -0700 > Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Instead of introducing a suid_dumpable=3 mode and breaking all users >> of mode 2, this only disables the unsafe portion of mode 2 (writing to >> disk via relative path). > > It would be nicer to generate the warning at configuration time rather than > at core-dumping time. I have a feeling that's Hard To Do, but why? I actually feel that this is much more discoverable because anyone trying to figure out why a crash isn't dumping core isn't going to be looking back in time through their dmesg to find the warning from setting the sysctl. Additionally, I think it's the same kind of thing that the other existing "Skipping core dump" printk messages are reporting. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
