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

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good to me. Thanks for putting up with my distraction! :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
ChromeOS Security
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