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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel: introduce prctl(PR_LOG_UACCESS)
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On 22.09.21 21:22, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:46:47 +0200
> David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>> All signals except SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are masked for the interval
>>> between the prctl() and the next syscall in order to prevent handlers
>>> for intervening asynchronous signals from issuing syscalls that may
>>> cause uaccesses from the wrong syscall to be logged.
>>
>> Stupid question: can this be exploited from user space to effectively
>> disable SIGKILL for a long time ... and do we care?
>
> I first misread it too, but then caught my mistake reading it a second
> time. It says "except SIGKILL". So no, it does not disable SIGKILL.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious Steve :)

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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