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authorYves-Alexis Perez <corsac@corsac.net>2018-10-02 22:47:23 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-10-07 17:16:38 +0200
commit31527da5d673ed16255869b6d0f209285b8b0981 (patch)
treeee059afd72527ebfee83f9b6a2c39f3d024b1654
parentdocs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api (diff)
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yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
Current phrasing is ambiguous since it's unclear if attaching to a children through PTRACE_TRACEME requires CAP_SYS_PTRACE. Rephrase the sentence to make that clear. Signed-off-by: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@corsac.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst
index 13468ea696b7..d0a060de3973 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ The sysctl settings (writable only with ``CAP_SYS_PTRACE``) are:
Using ``PTRACE_TRACEME`` is unchanged.
2 - admin-only attach:
- only processes with ``CAP_SYS_PTRACE`` may use ptrace
- with ``PTRACE_ATTACH``, or through children calling ``PTRACE_TRACEME``.
+ only processes with ``CAP_SYS_PTRACE`` may use ptrace, either with
+ ``PTRACE_ATTACH`` or through children calling ``PTRACE_TRACEME``.
3 - no attach:
no processes may use ptrace with ``PTRACE_ATTACH`` nor via