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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:29:52 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
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linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/
directory v6
Hi Tejun,
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:51 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:15:18PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > c) If dentry is lazily dropped on each access attempt (or each illegal
> > access) then PID2 can:
> >
> > i) read dentry line of /proc/slabinfo
> > ii) call link(2) against /proc/PID/fd, which invalidates the
> > specific dentry
> > iii) re-read dentry line of /proc/slabinfo. If it has decreased by
> > one, the dentry existed before (ii).
>
> If we really worry about this, probably the right thing to do is
> hiding slabinfo from mortal UIDs instead of worrying about what
> exactly are freed or not from each user.
I agree with you. I don't think that showing system-global debug
information to all users by default is the right thing. But some people
doesn't agree with this point of view:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1108378
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
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