From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 4.11 - broken enlightenment window manager (fixed in 4.12)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 09:56:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170609075622.GA25929@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170609093509.3a265d0b@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:35:09AM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> With 4.11 the enlightenment window mangers fails to start setuid
> children due to commit 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's
> creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP").
>
> Commit c70d9d809fde ("ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on
> fork") in Linus tree fixes the issue. Tested with v4.11.4. Please
> consider cherry-picking.
Sorry for the delay, others also asked for this, I'll try to get to it
for the next release.
greg k-h
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2017-06-09 7:35 Linux 4.11 - broken enlightenment window manager (fixed in 4.12) Ralph Sennhauser
2017-06-09 7:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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