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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/Smack.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt index 5ea996f21d6c..b6ef7e9dba30 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt @@ -204,6 +204,16 @@ onlycap these capabilities are effective at for processes with any label. The value is set by writing the desired label to the file or cleared by writing "-" to the file. +ptrace + This is used to define the current ptrace policy + 0 - default: this is the policy that relies on smack access rules. + For the PTRACE_READ a subject needs to have a read access on + object. For the PTRACE_ATTACH a read-write access is required. + 1 - exact: this is the policy that limits PTRACE_ATTACH. Attach is + only allowed when subject's and object's labels are equal. + PTRACE_READ is not affected. Can be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE. + 2 - draconian: this policy behaves like the 'exact' above with an + exception that it can't be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE. revoke-subject Writing a Smack label here sets the access to '-' for all access rules with that subject label. |