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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ptrace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ptrace.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h index 987a73a40ef8..998c098dd172 100644 --- a/include/linux/ptrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h @@ -56,7 +56,29 @@ extern void exit_ptrace(struct task_struct *tracer, struct list_head *dead); #define PTRACE_MODE_READ 0x01 #define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH 0x02 #define PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT 0x04 -/* Returns true on success, false on denial. */ +#define PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS 0x08 +#define PTRACE_MODE_REALCREDS 0x10 + +/* shorthands for READ/ATTACH and FSCREDS/REALCREDS combinations */ +#define PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS (PTRACE_MODE_READ | PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS) +#define PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS (PTRACE_MODE_READ | PTRACE_MODE_REALCREDS) +#define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH | PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS) +#define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH | PTRACE_MODE_REALCREDS) + +/** + * ptrace_may_access - check whether the caller is permitted to access + * a target task. + * @task: target task + * @mode: selects type of access and caller credentials + * + * Returns true on success, false on denial. + * + * One of the flags PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS and PTRACE_MODE_REALCREDS must + * be set in @mode to specify whether the access was requested through + * a filesystem syscall (should use effective capabilities and fsuid + * of the caller) or through an explicit syscall such as + * process_vm_writev or ptrace (and should use the real credentials). + */ extern bool ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode); static inline int ptrace_reparented(struct task_struct *child) |