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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [suspend] [patch 3/3] attach-fail-reasons: SELinux deny_ptrace
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308164622.GA29697@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d38nnivc.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:43:35 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I wonder whether ptrace-hardening approaches other than SELinux still
> have restrictions on PTRACE_TRACEME.  If so then you may want a similar
> patch anyhow.

There is a note that YAMA does not restrict PTRACE_TRACEME, like I recommended
for SELinux 'deny_ptrace':
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786878#c17

While it is good to handle errors from system calls I am not sure it is worth
to complicate GDB this way for a case which does not happen in real world.


Regards,
Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06  6:18 Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-06  8:35 ` Mark Kettenis
2012-03-06  8:42   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-06 19:29 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-08  6:53 ` [suspend] " Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-08 16:43   ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-08 16:46     ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2012-03-08 17:50       ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-08 16:51     ` Pedro Alves

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