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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> exec of setuid apps and ptrace must be synchronized, to ensure that a normal user cannot ptrace a setuid app across exec. ptrace_attach acquires the task_lock around the uid checks, compute_creds acquires the BLK. The patch converts compute_creds to the task_lock. Additionally, it removes the do_unlock variable: the task_lock is not heaviliy used, there is no need to avoid the spinlock by adding branches. The patch is a cleanup patch, not a fix for a security problem: AFAICS the sys_ptrace in every arch acquires the BKL before calling ptrace_attach.
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