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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH v2] procfs: Always expose /proc/<pid>/map_files/ and make it readable
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:46:47 +0300 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> > There's one other problem here: we're assuming that the map_files
> > implementation doesn't have bugs. If it does have bugs then relaxing
> > permissions like this will create new vulnerabilities. And the
> > map_files implementation is surprisingly complex. Is it bug-free?
>
> I didn't find any bugs in map-files (and we use it for long time already)
> so I think it is safe.

You've been using map_files the way it was supposed to be used so no,
any bugs won't show up. What happens if you don your evil black hat
and use map_files in ways that weren't anticipated? Attack it?



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