linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/1] mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may

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Message-ID: <20090623192451.GA27853@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:24:51 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access()

On 06/23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Umm, I think I mentioned it before:  if you really need to rename that
> beast please kill the ptrace part as we use it for all kinds of other
> things.

Agreed, it would be nice to rename (and move out of ptrace.c) but I am
not going to do this, I can't suggest the better naming.

But I think it would be nice to kill __ptrace_may_access() and use
ptrace_may_access() everywhere. ptrace_attach() is trivial, the only
other caller is mm_for_maps().

Oleg.

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