linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: fix NULL dereference when reading /proc/<pid>/auxv

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Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:12:08 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Leon Yu <chianglungyu@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>,
        Janis Danisevskis <jdanis@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fix NULL dereference when reading
        /proc/<pid>/auxv

On 10/19, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> Why would we even want to open that file if there is no mm struct?

Agreed this is strange, but I am not sure we can change this old
behaviour. Say, cat /proc/$pid-of-kthread/mem doesn't fail, it shows
the "empty mm".

Oleg.