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Date:   Sat, 5 Jan 2019 12:13:01 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 11:46 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Can we please just limit it to vma's that are either anonymous, or map
> a file that the user actually owns?

.. or slightly simpler: a file that the user opened for writing.

IOW, some (TOTALLY UNTESTED!) patch like this?

               Linus

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