Re: [PATCH] ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork

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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 02:52:01PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Enlightenment is broken in 4.11 and possibly other kernels where
> commit 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP")
> is backported to.

Has no one noticed it being broken on 4.10?  That's where that commit
showed up, it seems odd we haven't had a bug report until now, right?

And the git commit id in that commit (4214e42f96d4), seems odd, where
did it come from?

> Can you please backport commit c70d9d809fde ("ptrace: Properly
> initialize ptracer_cred on fork") to the appropriate kernels.

I will queue it up for the next round after these are released.

thanks,

greg k-h



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