From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting ptrace access mode checking
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 23:51:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160622215142.GA14751@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziqewc3r.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On 06/21, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Adding Oleg just because he seems to do most of the ptrace related
> maintenance these days.
so I have to admit that I never even tried to actually understand
ptrace_may_access ;)
> We certainly need something that gives a high level view so people
> reading the man page can know what to expect. If you get down into the
> weeds we run the danger of people beginning to think they can depend
> upon bugs in the implementation.
Personally I agree. I think "man ptrace" shouldn't not tell too much
about kernel internals.
Perhaps Documentation/security/ makes more sense?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-22 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-21 9:41 Documenting ptrace access mode checking Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <e335a243-2199-2185-c7b3-fb1c898e9ab4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-21 19:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <87ziqewc3r.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-21 20:29 ` Kees Cook
[not found] ` <CAGXu5jLwuqS5w-Thpngc=hFhXOdM-Q5_G1v9np1sOnmq+v2c4g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-21 20:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-06-22 19:20 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-06-22 19:20 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <4c6a338f-619b-9e99-9fd8-1cf6d86ecfed-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 19:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-06-24 9:57 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-06-22 21:51 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
[not found] ` <20160622215142.GA14751-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 7:06 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <f8069f83-f7b6-ee2c-5167-fa0d50732180-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 18:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <871t3nka3c.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-24 8:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-06-21 20:55 ` Jann Horn
2016-06-22 19:21 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <86486234-d78a-234b-58bb-6ca646881dc6-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-22 21:11 ` Kees Cook
[not found] ` <CAGXu5j+DoWCT=NwZK-yNBmZOu9LdEn=0-gjJvtPVmNJFanWoKA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 7:02 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-06-24 8:40 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-06-24 15:18 ` Casey Schaufler
[not found] ` <f45383ca-6bdc-bba0-07d0-a8e3cb9c08d2-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-24 20:07 ` Kees Cook
2016-06-25 7:21 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-06-22 22:44 ` Jann Horn
[not found] ` <20160622224428.GA15902-J1fxOzX/cBvk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 7:42 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <33209000-3fd4-0b26-f249-eb4e1a9e1651-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-24 6:35 ` Jann Horn
2016-06-23 18:05 ` Stephen Smalley
[not found] ` <fe5a5f9a-87f8-8483-58cf-61c73aa1ecdd-+05T5uksL2qpZYMLLGbcSA@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-24 8:33 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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