[pull request] [natty, maverick] fix PR_SET_PTRACER

Kees Cook kees.cook at canonical.com
Thu Mar 10 14:59:41 UTC 2011


Hi Stefan,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:41:13AM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 03:41 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kees/ubuntu-natty.git master
> > 
> 
> Just for completeness, was this the previous patch that the description is
> referring to?
> 
> commit 86266876b885a6f08668f39688e68a05f6bfac3c
> Author: Kees Cook <kees.cook at canonical.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 13 09:04:08 2010 -0700
> 
>     UBUNTU: SAUCE: Yama: search for PTRACE exceptions via thread group leader
> 
>     When looking for PTRACE exceptions, the thread group leader must be used
>     otherwise the exceptions can be missed for threaded processes.
> 
> Otherwise looks ok.

Yeah, that's the one.

> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team




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