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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] security: Yama: add ptrace relationship tracking interface
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:30:58PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 16:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > + if (mode == PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH &&
> > + ptrace_scope &&
> > + !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE) &&
> > + !task_is_descendant(current, child) &&
> > + !ptracer_exception_found(current, child))
> > + rc = -EPERM;
>
> capable() is better to put after all other tests

Right, but...

> as a failed capable()
> might emit a false positive warning into logs or something.

...primarily for another reason: a successful capable() sets
PF_SUPERPRIV, whereas the permission might have been granted without
capable() as well. The PF_SUPERPRIV flag is visible via BSD process
accounting.

Alexander


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