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Oleg Nesterov 00cd5c37af 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 <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:38 -07:00
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irq
power
time
.gitignore
acct.c
audit_tree.c
audit.c
audit.h
auditfilter.c Merge branch 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current 2008-04-29 11:41:22 -07:00
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_debug.c
cgroup.c
compat.c signals: add set_restore_sigmask 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c ptrace: introduce ptrace_reparented() helper 2008-04-30 08:29:38 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c signals: microoptimize the usage of ->curr_target 2008-04-30 08:29:35 -07:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c
hrtimer.c
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kgdb.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep.c
Makefile
marker.c
module.c
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
panic.c
params.c
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c signals: join send_sigqueue() with send_group_sigqueue() 2008-04-30 08:29:36 -07:00
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init 2008-04-30 08:29:38 -07:00
rcuclassic.c
rcupdate.c
rcupreempt_trace.c
rcupreempt.c
rcutorture.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h
sched.c
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: add set_restore_sigmask 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
softirq.c
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c
sys.c k_getrusage: don't take rcu_read_lock() 2008-04-30 08:29:34 -07:00
sysctl_check.c
sysctl.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
user_namespace.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c
workqueue.c