From 6c5d523826dc639df709ed0f88c5d2ce25379652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kawai, Hidehiro" Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:48:27 -0700 Subject: coredump masking: reimplementation of dumpable using two flags This patch changes mm_struct.dumpable to a pair of bit flags. set_dumpable() converts three-value dumpable to two flags and stores it into lower two bits of mm_struct.flags instead of mm_struct.dumpable. get_dumpable() behaves in the opposite way. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export set_dumpable] Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: Alan Cox Cc: David Howells Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c') diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 4a1745f1dad..82a558b655d 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static int may_attach(struct task_struct *task) return -EPERM; smp_rmb(); if (task->mm) - dumpable = task->mm->dumpable; + dumpable = get_dumpable(task->mm); if (!dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE)) return -EPERM; -- cgit v1.2.3