linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.11 - broken enlightenment window manager (fixed in 4.12)

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Date:   Fri, 9 Jun 2017 09:56:22 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@...il.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 4.11 - broken enlightenment window manager (fixed in 4.12)

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:35:09AM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> With 4.11 the enlightenment window mangers fails to start setuid
> children due to commit 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's
> creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP").
> 
> Commit c70d9d809fde ("ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on
> fork") in Linus tree fixes the issue. Tested with v4.11.4. Please
> consider cherry-picking.

Sorry for the delay, others also asked for this, I'll try to get to it
for the next release.

greg k-h