linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2] security: intoduce ptrace_task_may_access

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Message-ID: <4DFF5CCA.6070206@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:44:26 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, apparmor@...ts.ubuntu.com,
	"selinux@...ho.nsa.gov Stephen Smalley" <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, serge@...lyn.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] security: intoduce ptrace_task_may_access_current

On 06/20/2011 10:43 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:22 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
>> serge even if you disagree with all of that, you are definitely
>> going to need to review the capability changes added here.
>> Personally I'd like to see all of the capability changes done as a
>> separate patch from the ptrace changes.
> I'm afraid the patch series will not be bisectable (capabilities and
> ptrace code are very interconnected), but I'll try.

Just add the new functions, describe them, document them, but don't use 
them.  Then use them in the second patch.

-Eric
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