[PATCH] Declare set*id with warn_unused_result

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 13:08:00 GMT 2012


On 07/24/2012 06:08 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2012 07:58:28 Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On Linux (except very current versions without funky security modules),
>> set*uid can fail with EAGAIN when RLIMIT_NPROC would be exceeded.
>> Missing return value checks are known to result in privilege escalation
>> vulnerabilities.  It is a common coding error to call setuid before
>> setgid, so that the setgid fails, and checking for the setgid result
>> should prevent this mistake from going unnoticed.  Therefore, I think it
>> makes sense to add the attribute to both groups of functions.
>
> SGTM

Okay.  I plan to commit this change on Wednesday, unless there is more 
feedback.

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team



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