linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] security: Yama: add ptrace relationship tracking interface

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Date:	Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:30:58 +0400
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] security: Yama: add ptrace relationship tracking
 interface

Hi Kees,

Thank you for working on this!  We'll use Yama in Openwall too :-)

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 16:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> +	if (mode == PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH &&
> +	    ptrace_scope &&
> +	    !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE) &&
> +	    !task_is_descendant(current, child) &&
> +	    !ptracer_exception_found(current, child))
> +		rc = -EPERM;

capable() is better to put after all other tests as a failed capable()
might emit a false positive warning into logs or something.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy
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