From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 resend 0/12] enable writing to /proc/pid/mem
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:57:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110323145748.GA22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300891441-16280-1-git-send-email-wilsons@start.ca>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:43:49AM -0400, Stephen Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a resend[1] of a patch series that implements safe writes to
> /proc/pid/mem. Such functionality is useful as it gives debuggers a simple and
> efficient mechanism to manipulate a process' address space. Memory can be read
> and written using single calls to pread(2) and pwrite(2) instead of iteratively
> calling into ptrace(2).
It's in local queue already, along with other procfs fixes; I'm going to push
it today, with several more procfs race fixes added.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-23 14:43 [PATCH v2 resend 0/12] enable writing to /proc/pid/mem Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 01/12] x86: add context tag to mark mm when running a task in 32-bit compatibility mode Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 02/12] x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit " Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 03/12] mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 04/12] mm: arch: make in_gate_area " Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 05/12] mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 06/12] mm: use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in __get_user_pages Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 07/12] mm: factor out main logic of access_process_vm Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 08/12] mm: implement access_remote_vm Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 09/12] proc: disable mem_write after exec Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 resend 10/12] proc: hold cred_guard_mutex in check_mem_permission() Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:44 ` [PATCH v2 resend 11/12] proc: make check_mem_permission() return an mm_struct on success Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:44 ` [PATCH v2 resend 12/12] proc: enable writing to /proc/pid/mem Stephen Wilson
2011-03-23 14:57 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-03-23 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 resend 0/12] " Stephen Wilson
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