From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:31:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120305163130.GA13744@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120305160127.GM7366@moon>
On 03/05, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:40:29PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > > This prctl does cheat the kernel
> >
> > Yep. Except, well, it cheats the user-space.
>
> And kernel as well, since this link is not anymore
> the same as it was, and memory read from this file
> (at execution time) will keep data irrelevant to what
> the new symlink points to (but it's exactly by design).
The kernel will never use this file for reading. It is only
used as a placeholder for ->f_path shown in proc.
User-space can be confused, yes, this is by design.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-29 15:16 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-29 15:23 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-02-29 15:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-29 19:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-29 20:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-01 18:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-01 19:17 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-01 19:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-01 20:00 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-02 15:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-02 14:26 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-02 15:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-02 16:12 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-03 22:33 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-05 14:21 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-05 14:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-05 14:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-05 15:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-05 16:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-05 16:31 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-03-05 16:45 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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