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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	arnd@arndb.de, tglx@linutronix.de, luto@kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mhocko@kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
	ying.huang@intel.com, Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] mm/mempolicy: Make task->mempolicy externally modifiable via syscall and procfs
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:35:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231122133555.b7fc6cdefae0395d34a4cd1c@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231122133348.d27c09a90bce755dc1c0f251@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:33:48 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:11:49 -0500 Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com> wrote:
> > echo "default" > /proc/pid/mempolicy
> > echo "prefer=relative:0" > /proc/pid/mempolicy
> > echo "interleave:0-3" > /proc/pid/mempolicy
> 
> What do we get when we read from this?  Please add to changelog.
> 

Also a description of the permissions for this procfs file, along with
reasoning.  If it has global readability, and there's something
interesting in there, let's show that the security implications have
been fully considered.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-22 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-22 21:11 [RFC PATCH 00/11] mm/mempolicy: Make task->mempolicy externally modifiable via syscall and procfs Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] mm/mempolicy: refactor do_set_mempolicy for code re-use Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] mm/mempolicy: swap cond reference counting logic in do_get_mempolicy Gregory Price
2023-11-28 14:07   ` Michal Hocko
     [not found]     ` <ZWX0ytAwmOdooHdZ@memverge.com>
2023-11-28 14:28       ` Michal Hocko
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] mm/mempolicy: refactor set_mempolicy stack to take a task argument Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] mm/mempolicy: modify get_mempolicy call " Gregory Price
2023-11-28 14:07   ` Michal Hocko
     [not found]     ` <ZWX1U1gCTXC+lFXn@memverge.com>
2023-11-28 14:49       ` Michal Hocko
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] mm/mempolicy: modify set_mempolicy_home_node " Gregory Price
2023-11-28 14:07   ` Michal Hocko
2023-11-28 14:14     ` Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] mm/mempolicy: modify do_mbind to operate on task argument instead of current Gregory Price
2023-11-28 14:11   ` Michal Hocko
2023-11-28 14:51     ` Gregory Price
2023-11-28 18:08     ` Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] mm/mempolicy: add task mempolicy syscall variants Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] mm/mempolicy: export replace_mempolicy for use by procfs Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] mm/mempolicy: build mpol_parse_str unconditionally Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:11 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] mm/mempolicy: mpol_parse_str should ignore trailing characters in nodelist Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:12 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] fs/proc: Add mempolicy attribute to allow read/write of task mempolicy Gregory Price
2023-11-22 21:33 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] mm/mempolicy: Make task->mempolicy externally modifiable via syscall and procfs Andrew Morton
2023-11-22 21:35   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-11-22 22:24   ` Gregory Price
2023-11-27 15:29     ` Michal Hocko
2023-11-27 16:14       ` Gregory Price
2023-11-28  9:45         ` Michal Hocko
2023-11-28 13:15           ` Gregory Price

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