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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	torbenh <torbenh@gmx.de>,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Read THREAD_CPUTIME clock from other  processes.
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:56:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294430175.2016.455.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107195016.2334940467@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 11:50 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I think the constraints on /proc/.../stat reflect the most considered
> judgement of the security folks.  I suspect that the lack of constraint on
> /proc/.../schedstat reflects the scheduler folks just having failed to
> consider the same issues.  IMHO all access to the equivalent kinds of
> information should have the same security constraints. 

FWIW I'm fine with adding a PTRACE_MAY_READ constraint on schedstat.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-23 16:21 [PATCH] Read THREAD_CPUTIME clock from other processes Dario Faggioli
2010-12-23 16:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-23 17:38   ` Dario Faggioli
2010-12-23 18:12     ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-24 11:36     ` Dario Faggioli
2010-12-23 17:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-12-23 17:43   ` Dario Faggioli
2010-12-28 10:55 ` [PATCH resend] Reading POSIX CPU timer from outside the process Dario Faggioli
2010-12-28 16:38   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-28 21:38     ` Dario Faggioli
2010-12-29 13:21       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-29 14:10         ` Dario Faggioli
2010-12-29 18:30           ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-12-30 17:45         ` torbenh
2011-01-04 11:01           ` Dario Faggioli
2011-01-06 16:06             ` torbenh
2011-01-07 19:28 ` [PATCH] Read THREAD_CPUTIME clock from other processes Roland McGrath
2011-01-07 19:35   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-07 19:50     ` Roland McGrath
2011-01-07 19:49       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-07 19:58         ` Roland McGrath
2011-01-07 19:56       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-01-08 11:12   ` Dario Faggioli

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