On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It can securely enable syscall auditing which can catch all syscalls
> (however you only get race free memory arguments for the ones with LSM hooks
> at the right place). Really need both.
>
> I agree it's not easy to get tight (and also not pretty), but you have a lot
> better chance doing it this way than with ptrace.
.. And how the f*^& did you imagine that something like chrome would do that?
You need massive amounts of privileges, and it's a total disaster in
every single respect.
Stop pushing crap. No, ptrace isn't wonderful, but your LSM+auditing
idea is a billion times worse in all respects.
We can definitely fix the ptrace issue with compat system calls.
THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL YOU CAN EVER FIX LSM+AUDIT TO BE USABLE!
Stop bothering to even bring it up. It's dead, Jim.
Linus
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