Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:14:22 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality |
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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. :)
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team
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