From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [KJ] Re: [PATCH] Improved getrusage
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:45:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444525C7.9070301@myrealbox.com> (raw)
Claudio Scordino wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> A couple of months ago we discussed the possibility of improving the getrusage
> syscall to read usage information about tasks belonging to the same owner
> (not just about current and children).
>
> After an extensive discussion on the mailing list, some of us agreed about the
> following patch. Some others, instead, said that it is too permissive.
How about using security_ptrace? After all, if you can ptrace it, you
can make it call getrusage... But add-hoc addition of "it is the same
owner" code sounds bad for LSMs.
--Andy
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