On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 03:04:10AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> This is how the other arch_prctl()s handle it (if they do handle it,
> some don't). So I would think it would be nice to keep all the logic
> the same.
>
> I guess the flag might work based on the assumption that if the task is
> being ptraced, the arch_prctl() couldn't be coming from anywhere else.
> Maybe it should get a nicely named helper that they could all use and
> whatever best logic could be commented.
>
> Would this maybe be better as a future cleanup that did the change for
> them all?
Yeah, I'm just being overly paranoid.
Because if there's another way to unlock that feature, then this whole
"overhead" we're doing is for nothing.
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