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Date:   Thu, 17 Jan 2019 02:49:16 +0100
From:   Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged
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Jiri Kosina wrote on Wed, Jan 16, 2019:
> So if noone sees any principal problem there, I'll happily submit it with 
> proper attribution etc.

I'm not convinced just the write permission check is enough for
mincore(), as Josh also seems to share the concern I raised (e.g. map a
git directory "hot" pages)
We probably need to add an inode_owner_or_capable() or similar, the open
question is do we still need the write access check after that - I don't
really know how expensive these calls are.

Thanks,
-- 
Dominique