From: Arvid Brodin <Arvid.Brodin@xdin.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
"David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/proc: Add process text segment md5-summing
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:11:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A2E193.5090905@xdin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121112150325.2516a0bf.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 2012-11-13 00:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:36:17 +0000
> Arvid Brodin <Arvid.Brodin@xdin.com> wrote:
>
>> Adds /proc/<pid>/text_md5sum which, when read, calculates an md5sum over
>> the process' text segment. This can detect some cases where the system RAM
>> has been disturbed by e.g. ESD or cosmic radiation (on systems where ECC
>> is not available). It might also detect some accidental or malicious
>> modifications of executables, where the perpetrator has not bothered to
>> cover up the tracks.
>
> I thought the review comments regarding the earlier patch were rather
> fatal, sorry.
Ok. I get the point now at least. :) Thanks for taking the time to comment
on this!
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Arvid Brodin | Consultant (Linux)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 21:36 [PATCH] fs/proc: Add process text segment md5-summing Arvid Brodin
2012-11-12 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-13 2:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-14 1:45 ` Arvid Brodin
2012-11-14 0:11 ` Arvid Brodin [this message]
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