linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/map

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Message-ID: <20171121054836.GA2467@avx2>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:48:36 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...tuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: fix /proc/*/map_files lookup

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 02:16:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:27:06 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:

> > 	very broken
> > 	# readlink '/proc/1/map_files/1000000000000000055a23af39000-55a23b05b000'
> > 	/lib/systemd/systemd
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> > Cc: stable@...nel.org
> 
> OK, but why is this a problem worthy of backporting into -stable kernels?

Greg is making 4.14 LTS release. Maybe it should be fixed early than
wait until someone will start depending on it.