Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file

From	Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file
Date	2015-12-04 18:20 +0100
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File permissions are checked at time of open, so I think this fchmod
call has never had any effect.

If there is a concern that the mkstemp implementation may be insecure,
why not set and restore the umask?
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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com> - 2015-12-04 18:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> - 2015-12-06 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> - 2015-12-06 13:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> - 2015-12-06 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Tristan Schmelcher <tschmelcher@google.com> - 2015-12-08 21:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-12-08 22:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] um: Set secure access mode for temporary file Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> - 2015-12-10 01:00 +0100

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