From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:04:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080324230458.GA173@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080324223925.GD2426@elf.ucw.cz>
On 03/24, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > /sbin/init is important, but there are other important (and sometimes
> > much more important) services. Why it is so special so that we can't
> > debug/strace it?
>
> Maybe. Let's kill /sbin/init protection in 2.6.26. But making it
> optional is wrong.
You are right, the boot parameter is silly. How about sysctl?
Stephen, do you see any security problems if we make /sbin/init
ptraceable by default?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 13:51 [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 16:01 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 16:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 22:39 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 23:04 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2008-03-24 23:09 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 23:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 23:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-25 12:03 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-03-25 13:40 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-03-25 14:37 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-03-25 18:06 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-03-25 19:07 ` Herbert Poetzl
2008-03-25 21:55 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-26 15:31 ` Andrew Morgan
2008-03-26 15:47 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-24 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 22:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-24 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-24 23:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-25 10:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 14:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-25 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 14:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-25 14:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 14:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-25 14:47 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-25 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 17:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-25 22:00 ` Roland McGrath
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