Revision 8b01fc86b9f425899f8a3a8fc1c47d73c2c20543 authored by Jann Horn on 19 April 2015, 00:48:39 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 19 April 2015, 20:46:21 UTC
This prevents a race between chown() and execve(), where chowning a
setuid-user binary to root would momentarily make the binary setuid
root.

This patch was mostly written by Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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