This is the eighth in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure Levels LSM. It removes the ptrace check because it is redundant with the check made in kernel/ptrace.c. Thanks for Brad Spengler for this suggestion.
Signed off by: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1-modules/security/seclvl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1-modules.orig/security/seclvl.c 2005-02-03 15:54:35.055846936 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm1-modules/security/seclvl.c 2005-02-03 15:55:29.109629512 -0600 @@ -397,24 +397,6 @@ seclvl_write_passwd); /** - * Explicitely disallow ptrace'ing the init process. - */ -static int -seclvl_ptrace(struct task_struct * parent, struct task_struct * child) -{ - if (seclvl >= 0) { - if (child->pid == 1) { - seclvl_printk(1, KERN_WARNING "%s: Attempt to ptrace " - "the init process dissallowed in " - "secure level %d\n", __FUNCTION__, - seclvl); - return -EPERM; - } - } - return 0; -} - -/** * Capability checks for seclvl. The majority of the policy * enforcement for seclvl takes place here. */ @@ -634,7 +616,6 @@ } static struct security_operations seclvl_ops = { - .ptrace = seclvl_ptrace, .capable = seclvl_capable, .file_permission = seclvl_file_permission, .inode_setattr = seclvl_inode_setattr,