Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3a] ptrace: add _ptrace_may_access()

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/07, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > /* the callers of ptrace_may_access should be fixed */
> >
> > 	int ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
>
> Sigh, NAK, for the reasons explained in the previous mails.

Agreed, but what about security_operations->ptrace_may_access ?

It has the same (bad) name, but returns the error code or 0 on
success.

Oleg.

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