yama_ptrace_traceme(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for yama_ptrace_traceme — its whole job is to validate PTRACE_TRACEME calls 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is giving main character energy:

int yama_ptrace_traceme (struct task_struct *parent );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• parent — the task that will become the ptracer of the current task 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the return value is the whole moment here: it returns 0 if following the ptrace is allowed, and -ve on error. that’s literally it, no cap 😭💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

first up, the Kernel file: ./security/yama/yama_lsm.c 📁✨

then the whole squad:

• yama_relation_cleanup(9) 🧹
• yama_ptracer_add(9) ➕
• yama_ptracer_del(9) ➖
• yama_task_free(9) 🕊️
• yama_task_prctl(9) 🎛️
• task_is_descendant(9) 🌳
• ptracer_exception_found(9) 🔍
• yama_ptrace_access_check(9) ✅

mwah 💋 source/version: ./security/yama · date: October 2026 · page: yama_ptrace_traceme(9) 🎀