Re: [RFC Patch] kcore: restrict access to the whole memory

[Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>]

于 2010年12月23日 07:02, Andrew Morton 写道:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:21:59 +0800
> Amerigo Wang<amwang@redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> This patch restricts /proc/kcore from accessing the whole memory,
>> instead, only an ELF header can be read.
>>
>> The initial patch was done by Vivek.
>
> Getting a bit tired of this.
>
> Are we supposed to be mind-readers?  How else are we to work out why
> you think Linux needs this feature?  What problems it solves?  What
> applications are expected to break and what the breakage patterns are?
> Why the benefits are worth the maintenance costs and the risk of
> breakage?  Why it's done with a config option and not a boot-time or
> runtime tunable?
>

Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention this is for security reasons,
I am adding Eugene into Cc so that he can explain more about this.

Yeah, I thought about sysctl too, but it is really weird for me
to control /proc/kcore contents via an sysctl file, I think
an Kconfig is enough.

Thanks!