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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] Swap migration V3: sys_migrate_pages interface
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul Jackson wrote:

> * Christoph - what is the permissions check on sys_migrate_pages()?
> It would seem inappropriate for 'guest' to be able to move the
> memory of 'root'.

The check is missing.

Maybe we could add:

if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
return -EPERM;

Then we may also decide that root can move any process anywhere and drop
the retrieval of the mems_allowed from the other task.

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