From 9d8dad742ad1c74d7e7210ee05d0b44961d5ea16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 19:01:26 -0700 Subject: Yama: higher restrictions should block PTRACE_TRACEME The higher ptrace restriction levels should be blocking even PTRACE_TRACEME requests. The comments in the LSM documentation are misleading about when the checks happen (the parent does not go through security_ptrace_access_check() on a PTRACE_TRACEME call). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5.x and later Signed-off-by: James Morris --- include/linux/security.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/security.h') diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 4e5a73cdbbef..3dea6a9d568f 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -1242,8 +1242,6 @@ static inline void security_free_mnt_opts(struct security_mnt_opts *opts) * Check that the @parent process has sufficient permission to trace the * current process before allowing the current process to present itself * to the @parent process for tracing. - * The parent process will still have to undergo the ptrace_access_check - * checks before it is allowed to trace this one. * @parent contains the task_struct structure for debugger process. * Return 0 if permission is granted. * @capget: -- cgit v1.2.3