linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3a] ptrace: add _ptrace_may

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2009 11:31:24 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3a] ptrace: add _ptrace_may_access()


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> The design around that code does not seem to be very consistent.
> 
> One solution would be for the default "plain Linux" security 
> module to have a stock ->ptrace_access_check() that does the 
> current ptrace_may_access() check, and then procfs could be 
> updated to use that callback - instead of calling into the ptrace 
> core code directly.

hm, that's not a good idea, as we'd have an unnecessary indirect 
call even in the common case where the higher-level ptrace checks 
deny a request via -EPERM early on already.

So it's all designed fine and what we need is the rename plus the 
elimination of the bool.

	Ingo
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