Re: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file v3

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 17:13:12 EST


On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:03:13PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> How about "file_is_exec" instead, since it doesn't (and likely
> shouldn't) include the inode_permission(..., EXEC)? I'd like other
> people's thoughts on this since maybe it's not needed and I instead
> have accidentally derailed this patch with useless bike shedding.
>

Yup. Anyway, I'm leaving the former mm_struct::exe_file patch with
EXEC test opencoded so we can do everything on top then.

Cyrill
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