Bug#429918: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: setuid nobody fails after a set number of calls

[Huaqing Zheng <morpheus@stanford.edu>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:37:51AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> tags 429918 moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:08:06AM -0700, Huaqing Zheng wrote:
> > The default kernel shipped with etch seems to have an issue where setuid
> > calls will fail after a set number of calls.  This seems to happen more 
> > with the nobody user.
> 
> Please provide a test program which shows this problem.

I can't seem to reproduce it.  After some discussion with Russ Allbery,
we decided it might be related to the OpenAFS kernel module.  We'll
continue debugging and testing to see how to reproduce this bug.  In
the mean time, feel free to close this bug.

Thanks and sorry for wasting your time.

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Huaqing Zheng <morpheus@stanford.edu> -------------- Stanford University
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