Am Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:01:25PM +0100 schrieb Alejandro Colomar (man-pages):
> Hi,
>
> There's a bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210655
>
> [[
> Under "Ptrace access mode checking", the documentation states:
> "1. If the calling thread and the target thread are in the same thread
> group, access is always allowed."
>
> This is incorrect. A thread may never attach to another in the same group.
No, that is correct. ptrace-mode access checks do always short-circuit for
tasks in the same thread group:
/* Returns 0 on success, -errno on denial. */
static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
{
[...]
/* May we inspect the given task?
* This check is used both for attaching with ptrace
* and for allowing access to sensitive information in /proc.
*
* ptrace_attach denies several cases that /proc allows
* because setting up the necessary parent/child relationship
* or halting the specified task is impossible.
*/
/* Don't let security modules deny introspection */
if (same_thread_group(task, current))
return 0;
[...]
}
As the comment explains, you can't actually *attach*
to another task in the same thread group; but that's
not because of the ptrace-style access check rules,
but because specifically *attaching* to another task
in the same thread group doesn't work.
