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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:14:11 +0200 (CEST)
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Schaufler, Casey wrote:

> Why are you dropping the LSM check here, when in v4 you fixed the
> SELinux audit locking issue? We can avoid introducing an LSM hook
> and all the baggage around it if you can do the security_ptrace_access_check()
> here.

So what guarantees that none of the hooks that 
security_ptrace_access_check() is invoking will not be taking locks (from 
scheduler context in this case)?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs