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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Erase GLIBC_TUNABLES for setxid processes when tunables is disabled
On Tuesday 31 January 2017 06:52 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/29/2017 06:11 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> In addition to this, I'll post a patch for earlier releases (2.24 and
>> older) to add GLIBC_TUNABLES to unsecure_envvars (is unsecure even a
>> word?) so that they too don't end up passing on unsafe tunables.
>
> I expected a patch with a preprocessor condition for unsecvars.h for
> glibc 2.25. Wouldn't this have the same effect than your tunables-based
> changes?
It would, but I chose to limit the change to within the tunables code
base. I can do it your way if that's your preference.
Siddhesh