[LTP] [PATCH v3 1/3] security/dirtyc0w: Fix bug caused by default umask
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
Mon Mar 30 11:18:36 CEST 2020
Hi!
> The case is only successful when system default umask is 0022.
> When default umask is 0077 or other values, should clear current umask by umask(0) in setup().
What exactly fails in the dirtyc0w because of non-standard umask?
I can easily understand why fstat and statx fail, since we check the
file permissions there. Ideally the failure should have been part of the
patch description.
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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