I failed also to reproduce now, so it seems I've made some mistake in interpretation of size output or mixed up something in the testcase. The lockfile create syscall is only O_RDWR|O_CREAT so no truncate flag here.
So only impact remains is creation of annoying files, e.g.
I failed also to reproduce now, so it seems I've made some mistake in interpretation of size output or mixed up something in the testcase. The lockfile create syscall is only O_RDWR|O_CREAT so no truncate flag here.
So only impact remains is creation of annoying files, e.g.
/etc/suid-debug sshd_not_ to_be_run
/forcefsck
/etc/ssh/
and alike, making programs react strange if they find an directory where they expect a file or forcing process to get controlling TTY when not wanted.