yama_ptracer_add(9)

yama_ptracer_add(9) 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

yama_ptracer_add — add/replace an exception for this tracer/tracee pair 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int yama_ptracer_add (struct task_struct *tracer , struct task_struct *tracee );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tracer — the task_struct of the process doing the ptrace 👑
• tracee — the task_struct of the process to be ptraced 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Each tracee can have, at most, one tracer registered. no cap. Each time this is called, the prior registered tracer will be replaced for the tracee.

Returns 0 if relationship was added, -ve on error. That's the whole vibe check, bestie. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these too, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./security/yama/yama_lsm.c 📁
• yama_relation_cleanup(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)
• yama_ptrace_traceme(9)

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