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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 12:07:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170525100758.GB10343@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inkqav8e.fsf@xmission.com>

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 02:52:01PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Enlightenment is broken in 4.11 and possibly other kernels where
> commit 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP")
> is backported to.

Has no one noticed it being broken on 4.10?  That's where that commit
showed up, it seems odd we haven't had a bug report until now, right?

And the git commit id in that commit (4214e42f96d4), seems odd, where
did it come from?

> Can you please backport commit c70d9d809fde ("ptrace: Properly
> initialize ptracer_cred on fork") to the appropriate kernels.

I will queue it up for the next round after these are released.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-25 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-24 19:52 [PATCH] ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork Eric W. Biederman
2017-05-25 10:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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