From: Mike Coleman <mkc@mathdogs.com>
To: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why can't I ptrace init (pid == 1) ?
Date: 06 Aug 2001 17:05:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873d74c09m.fsf@mathdogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <102490000.992966603@changeling.engr.sgi.com> <3B3060C0.B2D368C@idb.hist.no> <9gpnqu$8lv$2@ncc1701.cistron.net>
In-Reply-To: <9gpnqu$8lv$2@ncc1701.cistron.net>
miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> The reason right now is I think that ptrace mucks around with sibling
> relations and since init is a special 'father of all processes' (or is that
> mother?) that would get the system into trouble real soon.
Yes. Ptrace does a sort of fakey reparenting of traced processes, which won't
work correctly with init, since it's its own parent.
Notice that init *is* currently allowed to do a PTRACE_TRACEME, which would
almost certainly cause the system to fail spectacularly. It's not really a
security problem, since init can do anything anyway, but it does annoy my
aesthetic sensibilities a bit. (The patch I sent to fix this wasn't
incorporated.)
--
Mike Coleman, mkc@mathdogs.com
http://www.mathdogs.com
problem solving, expert software development
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-06 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-19 16:03 Why can't I ptrace init (pid == 1) ? richard offer
2001-06-20 8:37 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-20 8:45 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-08-06 22:05 ` Mike Coleman [this message]
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