linux/fs/proc
Linus Torvalds e268337dfe proc: clean up and fix /proc/<pid>/mem handling
Jüri Aedla reported that the /proc/<pid>/mem handling really isn't very
robust, and it also doesn't match the permission checking of any of the
other related files.

This changes it to do the permission checks at open time, and instead of
tracking the process, it tracks the VM at the time of the open.  That
simplifies the code a lot, but does mean that if you hold the file
descriptor open over an execve(), you'll continue to read from the _old_
VM.

That is different from our previous behavior, but much simpler.  If
somebody actually finds a load where this matters, we'll need to revert
this commit.

I suspect that nobody will ever notice - because the process mapping
addresses will also have changed as part of the execve.  So you cannot
actually usefully access the fd across a VM change simply because all
the offsets for IO would have changed too.

Reported-by: Jüri Aedla <asd@ut.ee>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-17 15:21:19 -08:00
..
array.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security 2012-01-14 18:36:33 -08:00
base.c proc: clean up and fix /proc/<pid>/mem handling 2012-01-17 15:21:19 -08:00
cmdline.c proc: switch /proc/cmdline to seq_file 2008-10-23 14:29:04 +04:00
consoles.c console: rename acquire/release_console_sem() to console_lock/unlock() 2011-01-26 10:50:06 +10:00
cpuinfo.c proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c 2008-10-23 15:05:11 +04:00
devices.c proc: use seq_puts()/seq_putc() where possible 2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
generic.c switch procfs to umode_t use 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
inode.c procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options 2012-01-10 16:30:54 -08:00
internal.h procfs: parse mount options 2012-01-10 16:30:54 -08:00
interrupts.c proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c 2008-10-23 15:15:46 +04:00
Kconfig kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
kcore.c /proc/kcore: fix seeking 2011-01-13 08:03:17 -08:00
kmsg.c procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kmsg 2010-04-09 16:35:41 +02:00
loadavg.c sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users 2009-05-15 15:32:45 +02:00
Makefile ns: proc files for namespace naming policy. 2011-05-10 14:31:44 -07:00
meminfo.c fs/proc/meminfo.c: fix compilation error 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
mmu.c
namespaces.c vfs: trim includes a bit 2012-01-03 22:57:13 -05:00
nommu.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
page.c thp: remove PG_buddy 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
proc_devtree.c of/flattree: Drop an uninteresting message to pr_debug level 2011-03-02 13:45:18 -07:00
proc_net.c switch procfs to umode_t use 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
proc_sysctl.c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two) 2011-11-02 16:07:27 -07:00
proc_tty.c proc: use seq_puts()/seq_putc() where possible 2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
root.c procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options 2012-01-10 16:30:54 -08:00
softirqs.c proc: use seq_puts()/seq_putc() where possible 2011-01-13 08:03:16 -08:00
stat.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-06 08:44:54 -08:00
task_mmu.c mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages 2011-10-31 17:30:46 -07:00
task_nommu.c report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely 2011-03-23 16:36:50 -04:00
uptime.c Merge branch 'sched/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into cputime-tip 2011-12-19 19:23:15 +01:00
version.c proc: switch /proc/version to seq_file 2008-10-23 14:19:58 +04:00
vmcore.c fs: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros 2011-10-31 19:30:31 -04:00