Messages in this thread | | | From | John Stultz <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:53:43 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] proc: Relax /proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns capability requirements |
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:50 AM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> For ABI preservation, it still allows CAP_SYS_PTRACE tasks to >> access/modify timerslack values, but I'm fine with removing >> this if others agree. > > Is anything actually using this ABI yet? (Regardless, I'm fine > allowing both caps.)
Not that I'm aware of... but there may be someone somewhere.
Given it landed in 4.6, I suspect its fairly safe to remove.
thanks -john
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