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SubjectRe: [PATCH] security: unconditionally call Yama
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Kees Cook wrote:

> Given that several distros use (or want to use) Yama, I think that's
> reason enough for this. I think it's important for us to take a
> practical approach here, and having the big LSMs each hook Yama instead
> of doing this in a single global place will make it needlessly
> duplicated code.

With my SUSE hat on, I would be really reluctant to enable config option
in the distribution kernel that will make attaching gdb to running
processess impossible without any further tuning (like sysctl/procfs knob
to explicitly enable this feature).

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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