From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:53:15 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc1~261 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=00cd5c37afd5f431ac186dd131705048c0a11fdb;p=linux-2.6 ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init Afaics, currently there are no kernel problems with ptracing init, it can't lose SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag and be killed/stopped by accident. The ability to strace/debug init can be very useful if you try to figure out why it does not work as expected. However, admin should know what he does, "gdb /sbin/init 1" stops init, it can't reap orphaned zombies or take care of /etc/inittab until continued. It is even possible to crash init (and thus the whole system) if you wish, ptracer has full control. See also the long discussion: http://marc.info/?t=120628018600001 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Roland McGrath Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 5f8d452e81..dcc199c43a 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -168,8 +168,6 @@ int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task) audit_ptrace(task); retval = -EPERM; - if (task->pid <= 1) - goto out; if (same_thread_group(task, current)) goto out; @@ -521,12 +519,6 @@ struct task_struct *ptrace_get_task_struct(pid_t pid) { struct task_struct *child; - /* - * Tracing init is not allowed. - */ - if (pid == 1) - return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); child = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (child)