diff --git a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
index 4f0b7896a21d..a9511f179069 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ other process (and its descendents) are allowed to call PTRACE_ATTACH
 against it. Only one such declared debugging process can exists for
 each inferior at a time. For example, this is used by KDE, Chromium, and
 Firefox's crash handlers, and by Wine for allowing only Wine processes
-to ptrace each other.
+to ptrace each other. If a process wishes to entirely disable these ptrace
+restrictions, it can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, ...)
+so that any otherwise allowed process (even those in external pid namespaces)
+may attach.
+
+The sysctl settings are:
 
 0 - classic ptrace permissions: a process can PTRACE_ATTACH to any other
     process running under the same uid, as long as it is dumpable (i.e.
diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h
index 4d0e5bc5458c..a0413ac3abe8 100644
--- a/include/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/prctl.h
@@ -119,5 +119,6 @@
  * A value of 0 mean "no process".
  */
 #define PR_SET_PTRACER 0x59616d61
+# define PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY ((unsigned long)-1)
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index dd4d36067c50..573723843a04 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static void yama_ptracer_del(struct task_struct *tracer,
 	spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(relation, safe, &ptracer_relations, node)
 		if (relation->tracee == tracee ||
-		    relation->tracer == tracer) {
+		    (tracer && relation->tracer == tracer)) {
 			list_del(&relation->node);
 			kfree(relation);
 		}
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ static int yama_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
 		if (arg2 == 0) {
 			yama_ptracer_del(NULL, myself);
 			rc = 0;
+		} else if (arg2 == PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY) {
+			rc = yama_ptracer_add(NULL, myself);
 		} else {
 			struct task_struct *tracer;
 
@@ -208,6 +210,7 @@ static int ptracer_exception_found(struct task_struct *tracer,
 	int rc = 0;
 	struct ptrace_relation *relation;
 	struct task_struct *parent = NULL;
+	bool found = false;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
 	rcu_read_lock();
@@ -216,10 +219,11 @@ static int ptracer_exception_found(struct task_struct *tracer,
 	list_for_each_entry(relation, &ptracer_relations, node)
 		if (relation->tracee == tracee) {
 			parent = relation->tracer;
+			found = true;
 			break;
 		}
 
-	if (task_is_descendant(parent, tracer))
+	if (found && (parent == NULL || task_is_descendant(parent, tracer)))
 		rc = 1;
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	spin_unlock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);