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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:06:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019090646.GA24243@lucifer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161019085204.GD7517@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> yes this is the desirable and expected behavior.
>
> > wonder if this is desirable behaviour or whether this ought to be limited to
> > ptrace system calls. Regardless, by making the flag more visible it makes it
> > easier to see that this is happening.
>
> mem_open already enforces PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH

Ah I missed this, that makes a lot of sense, thanks!

I still wonder whether other invocations of access_remote_vm() in fs/proc/base.c
(the principle caller of this function) need FOLL_FORCE, for example the various
calls that simply read data from other processes, so I think the point stands
about keeping this explicit.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-13  0:20 [PATCH 00/10] mm: adjust get_user_pages* functions to explicitly pass FOLL_* flags Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_locked() Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-18 12:43   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked() Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-13  6:54   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-18 12:46   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-18 12:50   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-18 12:54   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-18 13:56     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-19  7:32       ` Jan Kara
2016-10-19  7:33   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-19  7:34   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: replace get_user_pages() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-17  9:22   ` Jesper Nilsson
2016-10-19  7:44   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-19  7:47   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-19  7:59   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-19  8:13     ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-19  8:40       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-19  8:52         ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-19  9:06           ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2016-10-19  9:23             ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: replace access_remote_vm() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-13  0:20 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: replace access_process_vm() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-17  9:23   ` Jesper Nilsson
2016-10-19 11:10   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-10-13  7:32 ` [PATCH 00/10] mm: adjust get_user_pages* functions to explicitly pass FOLL_* flags Christian König
2016-10-18 15:30 ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-19  8:58   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-19  9:07     ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-19 16:49       ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-19 17:01         ` Michal Hocko
2016-10-19 17:23           ` Dave Hansen
2016-10-20 19:26             ` Michal Hocko

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