On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:40 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Either way, I think register_uprobe() should disallow the probes in > VM_SHARED/VM_MAYWRITE vmas.
VM_SHARED, fully agreed, MAYWRITE not so sure, MAP_PRIVATE has MAYWRITE iirc and its perfectly fine to poke at those.