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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] proc: instantiate only pids that we can ptrace on
 'limit_pids=1' mount option
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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:45:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:46 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > +       /* Limit procfs to only ptracable tasks */
> > +       if (limit_pids == PROC_LIMIT_PIDS_PTRACE) {
> > +               cond_resched();
> > +               if (!has_pid_permissions(fs_info, task,
> HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS))
> > +                       goto out_put_task;
> > +       }
> 
> Where did that "cond_resched()" come from? That doesn't seem to make a lot
> of sense.

This call came along with has_pid_permissions from proc_pid_readdir [1]. It
seems to me that proc_pid_readdir and proc_pid_lookup should act in a
similar way in this case.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3ba4bceef23206349d4130ddf140819b365de7c8

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