Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 06:41:40 EST


On Tue 20-11-18 11:51:35, Jan Kara wrote:
> Honestly, it just shows that no amount of documentation is going to stop
> userspace from abusing API that's exposing too much if there's no better
> alternative.

Yeah, I agree. And we should never expose such a low level stuff in the
first place. But, well, this ship has already sailed...

> But this is a good clarification regardless. So feel free to
> add:
>
> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs