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Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 09:45:33 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: gladkov.alexey@...il.com
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] proc: instantiate only pids that we can ptrace on
 'limit_pids=1' mount option

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:46 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
wrote:

> +       /* Limit procfs to only ptracable tasks */
> +       if (limit_pids == PROC_LIMIT_PIDS_PTRACE) {
> +               cond_resched();
> +               if (!has_pid_permissions(fs_info, task,
HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS))
> +                       goto out_put_task;
> +       }

Where did that "cond_resched()" come from? That doesn't seem to make a lot
of sense.

                    Linus

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