linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2012 00:28:02 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file v3

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:24:38PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
...
> >
> > I've been in To: field that's why I replied you about nnp
> > (and, btw, what nnp is? not "Net national product" I suppose,
> >  this hint wikipedia gave me)
> 
> nnp is no_new_privs, which is my patch and is almost, but not quite,
> very relevant to this discussion.  Hence my confusion ;)

Ah, good to know (I'm on 3.3-rc6 now, so I've not yet noticed
this nnp helper :)

> 
> FWIW, since I've touched this code recently, the cleanup you're
> suggesting sounds good.

OK, once I prepare the helper we will see how it fits with
other code.

	Cyrill
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