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Message-ID: <20180514082908.GA28179@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 10:29:08 +0200
From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] proc: instantiate only pids that we can ptrace on
'limit_pids=1' mount option
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@...il.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
--
Rgrds, legion
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