From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:45:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130827154513.GA27943@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXP-mYBPRon=0NzexW1FK1Qxz2+Bwv7-WeHBQpvW7ywRg@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/26, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> On Aug 26, 2013 12:35 PM, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it would be semantically different, but it would mean that
> > "/proc/self/fd/" would actually make sense in a way that it currently
> > does *not* - which would seem fairly important, since the primary use
> > for it tends to be /dev/stdin.
> >
> > And the other semantic differences might be much harder to notice.
> > Worth testing?
>
> The "children" subdirectory will be different. But it's already screwed up.
No, it lives in tid_base_stuff, it should be only visible in
/proc/*/task/tid/ dir.
(and perhaps it also makes sense to remove mem/exe-like things from
tid_base_stuff...)
Anyway I agree, this change is risky.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-27 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-21 19:14 [PATCH v2] vfs: Tighten up linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <CA+55aFxi-ps2f2M8xPhfbuQ0pToqupPrDsLi2+GPUK2sqdYfUw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CALCETrW7+LcexA6v6RQDKhni_yJAduOmiSDneCpq3v8sPDvwUQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-08-21 20:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-22 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-22 18:53 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-22 19:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-22 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-22 20:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-22 20:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-22 20:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-22 20:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-22 20:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-22 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-22 20:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-23 1:07 ` Al Viro
2013-08-25 3:37 ` Al Viro
2013-08-25 7:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-25 14:23 ` Al Viro
2013-08-25 17:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-25 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-25 20:06 ` Al Viro
2013-08-25 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-26 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-26 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-26 18:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-27 19:16 ` [RFC PATCH] fs: Add user_file_or_path_at and use it for truncate Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-27 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-27 20:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-28 6:16 ` Al Viro
2013-08-28 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-28 19:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-28 19:59 ` Al Viro
2013-08-28 21:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-27 23:08 ` Al Viro
2013-08-27 23:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-24 18:29 ` /proc/pid/fd && anon_inode_fops Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-24 21:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-25 5:23 ` Al Viro
2013-08-25 6:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-25 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-25 19:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-25 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-26 15:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-26 16:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-26 17:54 ` [PATCH] proc: make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-26 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-26 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-26 20:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-08-27 15:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-27 14:39 ` [PATCH 0/1] proc: make /proc/self point to thread Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-27 14:40 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-27 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-27 17:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-27 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-27 18:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <CALCETrXP-mYBPRon=0NzexW1FK1Qxz2+Bwv7-WeHBQpvW7ywRg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-08-27 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-08-26 18:32 ` [PATCH] proc: make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-26 18:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-26 18:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-26 19:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-27 14:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-25 18:32 ` /proc/pid/fd && anon_inode_fops Linus Torvalds
2013-08-25 19:11 ` Al Viro
2013-08-25 19:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-09-03 15:58 ` Pavel Machek
2013-08-25 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20130825051044.GY27005@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <20130825155348.GB25922@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <CALCETrXrtP2C+g=QeNWK4EMctmonW91kWoO1xmy7rDmEj__1Dw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20130825174936.GA30957@redhat.com>
2013-08-25 17:55 ` [PATCH 0/1] anon_inodefs: forbid open via /proc Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-25 17:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-22 19:39 ` [PATCH v2] vfs: Tighten up linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) Willy Tarreau
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