Re: [Security] [PATCH] proc: avoid information leaks to non-privilegedprocesses

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jake Edge wrote:
>
> This is essentially v2 of "[PATCH] proc: avoid leaking eip, esp, or
> wchan to non-privileged processes", adding some of Eric Biederman's
> suggestions as well as the start_stack change (only give out that
> address if the process is ptrace()-able).  This has been tested with ps
> and top without any ill effects being seen.

Looks sane to me. Anybody objects?

		Linus
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