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From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@corsac.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:54:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b06d90e5fd23633af4dfbb5f9c6cfa7607152cc.camel@corsac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be02c1974b028efcc2a0ec49dfedff456a78e156.camel@corsac.net>

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On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 23:08 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 13:52 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 10:47:23PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > Current phrasing is ambiguous since it's unclear if attaching to a
> > > children through PTRACE_TRACEME requires CAP_SYS_PTRACE. Rephrase the
> > > sentence to make that clear.
> > 
> > I disagree that your sentence makes that clear.  How about:
> > 
> > >  2 - admin-only attach:
> > > -    only processes with ``CAP_SYS_PTRACE`` may use ptrace
> > > -    with ``PTRACE_ATTACH``, or through children calling
> > > ``PTRACE_TRACEME``.
> > > +    only processes with ``CAP_SYS_PTRACE`` may use ptrace, either with
> > > +    ``PTRACE_ATTACH`` or through children calling ``PTRACE_TRACEME``.
> > 
> > +    only processes with ``CAP_SYS_PTRACE`` may use ptrace.  This
> > +    restricts both ``PTRACE_ATTACH`` and ``PTRACE_TRACEME``.
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I'm no native speaker, both versions are fine by me but I liked keeping the
> “children calling” part since the semantics are quite different for
> PTRACE_ATTACH and PTRACE_TRACEME.
> 
Hi Kees, Matthew,

so what's the status on this? Who needs to acknowledge one wording or another?

Regards,
- -- 
Yves-Alexis
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      reply	other threads:[~2018-10-07  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-02 20:47 [PATCH] yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation Yves-Alexis Perez
2018-10-02 20:52 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-07 14:37   ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-10-02 20:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-02 21:07   ` Kees Cook
2018-10-02 21:08   ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2018-10-07  8:54     ` Yves-Alexis Perez [this message]

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