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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: /bin/ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/$$/exe: Permission denied
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:37:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040816133730.GA6463@suse.de> (raw)


For some reasons ls -l /proc/$$/exe doesnt work all time for me,
with 2.6.8.1 on ppc64. Sometimes it does, sometimes not. No pattern.
A few printks show that this check in proc_pid_readlink() triggers
an -EACCES:

        current->fsuid != inode->i_uid

proc_pid_readlink(755) error -13 ntptrace(11408) fsuid 100 i_uid 0 0
sys_readlink(281) ntptrace(11408) error -13 readlink
proc_pid_readlink(755) error -13 ls(11509) fsuid 91 i_uid 0 0
sys_readlink(281) ls(11509) error -13 readlink
proc_pid_readlink(755) error -13 ls(11559) fsuid 91 i_uid 0 0
sys_readlink(281) ls(11559) error -13 readlink
proc_pid_readlink(755) error -13 ls(11621) fsuid 91 i_uid 0 0
sys_readlink(281) ls(11621) error -13 readlink

any ideas what is supposed to happen here? Who should set the
inode->i_uid? ssh to the smp box runs the login scripts, they try to
figure out what shell is running via ls -l /proc/$$/exe
This works ok with our 2.6.5 kernel at least.


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-16 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-16 13:37 Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-08-16 22:19 ` /bin/ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/$$/exe: Permission denied Olaf Hering
2004-08-16 22:39 ` Olaf Hering
2004-08-16 23:34   ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-17  5:23     ` Olaf Hering
2004-08-17  8:50       ` Andreas Schwab

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