Re: [PATCH] Read THREAD_CPUTIME clock from other processes.
Date
Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:58:22 -0800 (PST)
> Well, ptrace_may_access() protects only get_wchan/eip/esp, but > not utime/stime.
Oh, sorry. I misread the code. As I said, I leave it to the security folks to decide what the appropriate constraints are. All the mechanisms for accessing the same information should just be consistent. So perhaps this is indeed fine.