Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 08:37:03 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] CRED: Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against ptrace |
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On Fri, 8 May 2009, David Howells wrote:
> Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against foreign > intervention on a process's credential state, such as is made by ptrace(). The > attachment of a debugger to a process affects execve()'s calculation of the new > credential state - _and_ also setprocattr()'s calculation of that state. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Applied to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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