[PATCH v5 2/5] Smack: Prepare for PTRACE_MODE_SCHED

[Jann Horn]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:35 PM Casey Schaufler
<casey.schaufler at intel.com> wrote:
> A ptrace access check with mode PTRACE_MODE_SCHED gets called
> from process switching code. This precludes the use of audit,
> as the locking is incompatible. Don't do audit in the PTRACE_MODE_SCHED
> case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler at intel.com>
> ---
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> index 340fc30ad85d..ffa95bcab599 100644
> --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> @@ -422,7 +422,8 @@ static int smk_ptrace_rule_check(struct task_struct *tracer,
>         struct task_smack *tsp;
>         struct smack_known *tracer_known;
>
> -       if ((mode & PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT) == 0) {
> +       if ((mode & PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT) == 0 &&
> +           (mode & PTRACE_MODE_SCHED) == 0) {

If you ORed PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT into the flags when calling the
security hook, you could drop this patch, right?