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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2020-10-22 11:39:00 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2020-10-22 13:52:38 +0530
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Reword description of SXID_* tunable properties
The SXID_* tunable properties only influence processes that are
AT_SECURE, so make that a bit more explicit in the documentation and
comment.

Revisiting the code after a few years I managed to confuse myself, so
I imagine there could be others who may have incorrectly assumed like
I did that the SXID_ERASE tunables are not inherited by children of
non-AT_SECURE processes.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/manual/README.tunables b/manual/README.tunables
index fff6c2a87e..d8c768abcc 100644
--- a/manual/README.tunables
+++ b/manual/README.tunables
@@ -59,12 +59,13 @@ The list of allowed attributes are:
 
 - env_alias:		An alias environment variable
 
-- security_level:	Specify security level of the tunable.  Valid values:
+- security_level:	Specify security level of the tunable for AT_SECURE
+			binaries.  Valid values are:
 
-			SXID_ERASE: (default) Don't read for AT_SECURE binaries and
-				    removed so that child processes can't read it.
-			SXID_IGNORE: Don't read for AT_SECURE binaries, but retained for
-				     non-AT_SECURE subprocesses.
+			SXID_ERASE: (default) Do not read and do not pass on to
+			child processes.
+			SXID_IGNORE: Do not read, but retain for non-AT_SECURE
+			child processes.
 			NONE: Read all the time.
 
 2. Use TUNABLE_GET/TUNABLE_SET/TUNABLE_SET_WITH_BOUNDS to get and set tunables.