Re: [PATCH] ptrace: allow restriction of ptrace scope

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jun 17 2010 - 18:16:16 EST


> And for them, it certainly seems like a good idea to be able to turn off
> PTRACE without having to fiddle with an LSM.

But that *is* an LSM, its a security policy.

You don't seem to get it - even the default kernel security is a
security policy (security/commoncap.c etc)

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