Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:10:16 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop |
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 06:21:08PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Today ptrace_message is easy to overlook as it not a core part of > ptrace_stop. It has been overlooked so much that there are places > that set ptrace_message and don't clear it, and places that never set > it. So if you get an unlucky sequence of events the ptracer may be > able to read a ptrace_message that does not apply to the current > ptrace stop. > > Move setting of ptrace_message into ptrace_stop so that it always gets > set before the stop, and always gets cleared after the stop. This > prevents non-sense from being reported to userspace and makes > ptrace_message more visible in the ptrace helper functions so that > kernel developers can see it. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
This looks good to me. Did you happen to run the seccomp selftests before/after these changes?
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-- Kees Cook
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