From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:45:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20081002211424.GJ10632@outflux.net> <20081004145149.52c34ee7@infradead.org> <20081004220220.GK10632@outflux.net> <20081004164239.0c1483a4@infradead.org> <20081005004233.GL10632@outflux.net> <20081004174843.6fe48a8e@infradead.org> <20081005091120.GA21003@x200.localdomain> <20081005101438.GR10632@outflux.net> <517f3f820810070639q549ed2a1pe297e45108dfa007@mail.gmail.com> <20081007161422.GD10357@outflux.net> Reply-To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081007161422.GD10357-oSa+0FWJbaXR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Kees Cook Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi Kees, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:39:26PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Kees Cook wrote: >> > Make process personality flags visible in /proc. Since a process's >> > personality is potentially sensitive (e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC), make this >> > file only readable by the process owner. >> >> Please CC userland interface changes to linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > > Sure, I'd be happy to do that for future stuff. I don't see this email > address mentioned anywhere in the kernel tree. It seems like this is > useful information that should go in either MAINTAINERS or better yet > Documentation/SubmittingPatches for it to be discoverable by future > patch-senders -- and somewhere that I can look it up easily later. :) It's there, but only as of a few days ago. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html