Right, I'm satisfied with the ptrace_may_access check that was added. The deprecation was suggested as an additional change. I'm okay keeping the syscall if someone actually needs it. :) -Kees On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The permissions on the syscall were fixed them withR ptrace_may_access. > > We have identified two legitimate use cases. > > It looks like it is time for someone to generate the path to remove the depreciation. > > Who is up for writing and testing that patch? > > Eric > -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html