Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 7 authors, 2021-03-03

Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm/madvise: replace ptrace attach requirement for process_madvise

From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Date: 2021-01-20 05:10:20
Also in: linux-mm, linux-security-module, lkml, selinux

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
Replace PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH with a combination of PTRACE_MODE_READ
and CAP_SYS_NICE. PTRACE_MODE_READ to prevent leaking ASLR metadata
and CAP_SYS_NICE for influencing process performance.

Almost missed these -- please cc the LSM mailing list when modifying 
capabilities or other LSM-related things.

-- 
James Morris
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