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

[Eric W. Biederman]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 4 May 2009 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>
> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks sane here.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Eric
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