linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan

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Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:47:53 +0300
From:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel
 addresses via wchan

2015-10-01 13:39 GMT+03:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>:
>
> There's another problem as well: your change loses the PTRACE_MODE_READ permission
> check.


I guess, you should fix your patch than, because it removed this check
likewise...


>
> But ... I think I like it open coded, which is good precisely because it will stay
> invariant even if we change details in the %ps/etc. debug output.
>

Fair enough.

> Thanks,
>
>         Ingo
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