From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: "Kees Cook" <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:45:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0810071945j4ebbe366qdf2e98fe3d0306eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007161422.GD10357@outflux.net>
Hi Kees,
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:39:26PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
>> > Make process personality flags visible in /proc. Since a process's
>> > personality is potentially sensitive (e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC), make this
>> > file only readable by the process owner.
>>
>> Please CC userland interface changes to linux-api@vger.kernel.org
>
> Sure, I'd be happy to do that for future stuff. I don't see this email
> address mentioned anywhere in the kernel tree. It seems like this is
> useful information that should go in either MAINTAINERS or better yet
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches for it to be discoverable by future
> patch-senders -- and somewhere that I can look it up easily later. :)
It's there, but only as of a few days ago.
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 21:14 [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file Kees Cook
2008-10-02 22:46 ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-10-02 22:56 ` Kees Cook
2008-10-04 21:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-04 21:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-04 22:02 ` Kees Cook
2008-10-04 23:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-05 0:42 ` Kees Cook
2008-10-05 0:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-05 9:11 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-05 10:07 ` Kees Cook
2008-10-05 10:14 ` [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality Kees Cook
2008-10-05 23:20 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-07 13:39 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-10-07 16:14 ` Kees Cook
2008-10-08 2:45 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
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