linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Yama: turn process ancestry check into function

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1007210901490.22161@tundra.namei.org>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:02:01 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
cc:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Yama: turn process ancestry check into function

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Kees Cook wrote:

> This cleans up the ancestry check by separating it out into its own
> function, which makes the code a bit more readable.  Additionally, it
> now checks for and uses the thread group leader since otherwise we may
> end up missing potential matches on attaches to threads.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

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James Morris
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