Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:05:33 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
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        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
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        Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
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        Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + syscalls-x86-add-__nr_kcmp-syscall-v8.patch added to -mm tree
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57:33PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > 
> > This makes me scratch the head ;) I think ptrace_may_access (or
> > some other security test) should remain since it's somehow weird
> > if non-root task will be able to find objects order from privileged
> > task. Thus I need to find a way how to handle execve(setuid_app).
> > Need to think...
> 
> Look at fs/proc/base.c:lock_trace() - it locks ->cred_guard_mutex
> for the whole period of time when it uses a resource.

Yup, thanks Vasiliy! I've just found cred_guard_mutex in
install_exec_creds. Now I'm thinking if this is what we
need here ;)

	Cyrill
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