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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com>,
	Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com>,
	Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>,
	Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com>,
	Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: Fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:01:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65f33d6c-4e51-d659-b6c6-f2eac65c65af@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAqxLV6P8U0nVZrsyWSEX+duL7fHt298gm1wHo-Qi5CFAH1_A@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/10/2016 12:03 PM, John Stultz wrote:

> I wasn't entierly sure. I didn't think PR_SET_TIMERSLACK has a
> security hook, but looking again I now see the top-level
> security_task_prctl() check, so maybe not skipping it in this case
> would be good?

the easy fix would be to add back the ptrace check.. just either ptrace-able OR CAP_SYS_NICE ;)
then you can prove you only added new stuff as well, and have all the LSM from before

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-10 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09 23:54 [PATCH] proc: Fix timerslack_ns CAP_SYS_NICE check when adjusting self John Stultz
2016-08-10 18:36 ` Kees Cook
2016-08-10 19:03   ` John Stultz
2016-08-10 19:13     ` John Stultz
2016-08-10 20:01     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2016-08-10 20:45       ` John Stultz
2016-08-10 21:02   ` Kees Cook
2016-08-10 21:12     ` John Stultz
2016-08-10 21:22       ` Kees Cook

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