On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:13:12PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>
> int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, int kill)
> {
> ...
> + if (!is_dumpable(child))
> + return -EPERM;
> }
>
> So, we went from being able to ptrace daemons as root, to being able to
> attach daemons and then being unable to do anything with them, even if
> you're root (or have the CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability). I think this
> behaviour is getting on for being described as "insane" 8) and is
> clearly wrong.
ok it seems this check is too strong. It *has* to check
child->task_dumpable and return -EPERM, but child->mm->dumpable is not
needed.
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