From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
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DOCUMENTATION
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MEMORY MANAGEMENT <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:32:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <525DB45B.4080908@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131015142132.853f383980be58e18fa3c60a@linux-foundation.org>
On 10/15/2013 02:21 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Fishing around in another process's user memory for /proc strings
> is unusual and problems might crop up if we missed something.
FWIW, it might not be the _most_ common thing, but there is quite a bit
of precedent provided by /proc/$pid/cmdline. We can be at least assured
that if we follow the same rules as that file we shouldn't be making the
situation any worse. The cmdline mm->arg_start is just as
user-controlled as the pointers are in this new case.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-15 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-15 1:31 [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: rearrange madvise code to allow for reuse Colin Cross
2013-10-15 1:31 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-15 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory Colin Cross
2013-10-15 1:31 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-15 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2013-10-15 21:32 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2013-10-15 21:47 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-15 21:47 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-16 0:33 ` Minchan Kim
2013-10-16 20:00 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-16 20:34 ` Dave Hansen
2013-10-16 20:41 ` Colin Cross
2013-10-17 2:47 ` Minchan Kim
2013-10-30 21:15 ` Colin Cross
2013-11-01 1:30 ` Minchan Kim
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-12 2:34 [PATCH 1/2] mm: rearrange madvise code to allow for reuse Colin Cross
2013-07-12 2:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory Colin Cross
2013-07-12 5:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 8:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 8:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 9:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 20:51 ` Colin Cross
2013-09-26 1:24 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-12 8:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 9:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 10:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-12 5:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 6:18 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-12 7:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-07-12 6:36 ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-12 6:42 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-14 14:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-14 19:27 ` Colin Cross
2013-07-14 14:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-14 19:34 ` Colin Cross
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