On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Jann Horn wrote:

> > Well, we can't really call out into audit from scheduler code, and the
> > previous versions of the patchsets didn't have PTRACE_MODE_SCHED, so it
> > had to be included in PTRACE_MODE_IBPB in order to make sure we're not
> > calling into audit from context switch code.
> >
> > Or did I misunderstand the question?
> 
> If I understand Casey correctly, he is saying that your patch
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/)
> doesn't include PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT for IBPB, but the previous v6 of
> your patch 
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/)
> did include it, and therefore Casey thinks that there is a specific
> reason why you removed PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT, 

Quite honestly, I don't remember. I dont't think there is any deadlock 
that'd be triggered by this.

> and therefore Casey is adding special-case logic for PTRACE_MODE_SCHED 
> to Smack when simply using PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT would also work.
> 
> I think that Casey should change ptrace_may_access_sched() to use
> "mode | PTRACE_MODE_SCHED | PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT".

Agreed, that should work.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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