Re: maps2-add-proc-pid-pagemap-interface.patch

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:28:50PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 17:31 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > And how about "cpu_to_le16(1) == 1" instead of "ntohl(1) != 1"?
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Using a networking macro to detect endianness is old school: we have the
> nice explicit macros these days...
> 
> > > > +	while (pm.count > 0 && vma) {
> > > > +		if (!ptrace_may_attach(task)) {
> > > > +			ret = -EIO;
> > > > +			goto out_mm;
> > > > +		}
> > > 
> > > You already checked ptrace_may_attach() earlier in this function; do you
> > > need to do that again?
> > 
> > I think so. Consider exec(). This whole area is full of interesting
> > traps and it pays to be paranoid.
> 
> I don't think normal ptraces get cut on exec, so I'm not sure why this
> should be different.

They absolutely do, if UID changes. Consider ptracing a shell
launching a setuid binary. For something more closely analogous,
consider opening /proc/pid/mem on the same shell...

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