From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, xemul@openvz.org, pavel@ucw.cz,
sds@tycho.nsa.gov, roland@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: it is fun to strace /sbin/init
Date: 25 Mar 2008 11:00:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6dzi0mw.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080324160819.cea2d921.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Why not just unconditionally enable root's abiltiy to ptrace init?
It would be fine to allow this unconditionally if there was some mechanism
to make sure someone else takes over reaping childs while init is ptraced.
I like the general idea -- i used to patch kernels to allow this too,
but it is dangerous.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 10:01 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
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 [this message]
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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