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Linux 4.11 - broken enlightenment window manager (fixed in 4.12)

DISCUSSION Ralph Sennhauser 2 participants 2 messages Jun 9, 2017 Stable branch

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Hi Greg,

With 4.11 the enlightenment window mangers fails to start setuid children due to commit 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP").

Commit c70d9d809fde ("ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork") in Linus tree fixes the issue. Tested with v4.11.4. Please consider cherry-picking.

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Ralph

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Hi Greg,

With 4.11 the enlightenment window mangers fails to start setuid children due to commit 64b875f7ac8a ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP").

Commit c70d9d809fde ("ptrace: Properly initialize ptracer_cred on fork") in Linus tree fixes the issue. Tested with v4.11.4. Please consider cherry-picking.

Sorry for the delay, others also asked for this, I'll try to get to it for the next release.

greg k-h