Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:45:22 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality |
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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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