From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>, Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
"containers@lists.osdl.org" <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
LINUXFS-ML <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:42:44 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E55EEE4.4050902@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wre2d83p.fsf@firstfloor.org>
On 08/24/2011 09:36 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> writes:
>>
>> No and this is the trick - when you readlink it - it give you trash, but
>> when you open one - you get exactly the same file as the map points to.
>
> Isn't that a minor security hole?
>
> For example if I pass a file descriptor into a chroot process for
> reading, and with this interface you can open it for writing too.
> I could see this causing problems.
How does it differ from the /proc/pid/fd links?
> -Andi
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 8:53 [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 9:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-24 9:33 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-24 9:34 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-24 9:37 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 9:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 11:18 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-24 11:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 8:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:01 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:05 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-25 17:21 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:25 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-25 17:27 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 20:54 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 21:12 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 21:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 21:39 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-26 6:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 11:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 12:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-08-26 12:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 13:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-26 14:06 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-26 14:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-08-26 14:27 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:11 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:36 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-25 17:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 17:54 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-25 18:13 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 15:05 ` Zan Lynx
2011-08-24 15:19 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-24 17:36 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-25 6:42 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2011-08-25 14:04 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-25 14:30 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-25 14:47 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-08-24 15:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-09-13 14:14 ` Pavel Machek
2011-09-13 14:20 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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