From: Bill Roberts <bill.roberts@arm.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: casey@schaufler-ca.com, Bill Roberts <bill.roberts@arm.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] security: clarify task_prctl hook documentation
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:03:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260615200325.260057-1-bill.roberts@arm.com> (raw)
The task_prctl hook comment incorrectly described the hook as checking
whether a prctl operation is allowed. In reality, the hook exists for
LSMs to handle LSM-specific prctl operations.
Update the function description and kernel-doc comment to reflect the
actual behavior. The old wording appears to have been copied from other
permission-check hooks despite differing semantics.
Signed-off-by: Bill Roberts <bill.roberts@arm.com>
---
security/security.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 4e999f023651..96e6ef088801 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -3301,15 +3301,14 @@ int security_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
}
/**
- * security_task_prctl() - Check if a prctl op is allowed
+ * security_task_prctl() - Handle an LSM specific prctl call
* @option: operation
* @arg2: argument
* @arg3: argument
* @arg4: argument
* @arg5: argument
*
- * Check permission before performing a process control operation on the
- * current process.
+ * Handle lsm specific prctl operations.
*
* Return: Return -ENOSYS if no-one wanted to handle this op, any other value
* to cause prctl() to return immediately with that value.
--
2.54.0
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