Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] ptrace: Provide ___ptrace_may_access() that can be applied on arbitrary tasks

Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-05T07:51:33Z

On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 04:40:57PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>
> Current ptrace_may_access() implementation assumes that the 'source' task is
> always the caller (current).

Note that now you 'fixed' the new user, this is still true. Which makes
me think you do not in fact need this patch, right?