linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality

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Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:45:22 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Kees Cook" <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Cc:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality

Hi Kees,

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:39:26PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com> wrote:
>> > Make process personality flags visible in /proc.  Since a process's
>> > personality is potentially sensitive (e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC), make this
>> > file only readable by the process owner.
>>
>> Please CC userland interface changes to linux-api@...r.kernel.org
>
> Sure, I'd be happy to do that for future stuff.  I don't see this email
> address mentioned anywhere in the kernel tree.  It seems like this is
> useful information that should go in either MAINTAINERS or better yet
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches for it to be discoverable by future
> patch-senders -- and somewhere that I can look it up easily later.  :)

It's there, but only as of a few days ago.

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