Re: [PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/map_files lookup

Alexey Dobriyan
2017-11-21T05:48:41Z

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 02:16:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:27:06 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> > very broken
> > # readlink '/proc/1/map_files/1000000000000000055a23af39000-55a23b05b000'
> > /lib/systemd/systemd
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
>
> OK, but why is this a problem worthy of backporting into -stable kernels?

Greg is making 4.14 LTS release. Maybe it should be fixed early than
wait until someone will start depending on it.