linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] prctl: (Please do not!) Deprecate non PR_SET_MM

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Message-ID: <20180506125208.GO31735@uranus>
Date:   Sun, 6 May 2018 15:52:08 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan de Boyne Pollard 
        <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@...World.COM>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] prctl: (Please do not!) Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP
 operations

On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 12:01:44PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
...
> 
> Incidentally, it is a welcome change to see the idea that unprivileged
> processes may alter these things being introduced, as is already the case on
> (say) FreeBSD.
> 
> (I am not subscribed to linux-kernel.)

First of all, thank a lot for the feedback, Jonathan!
I'm out of office at the moment, will reply with more
details once I back.