Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755886AbYJBW4y (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:56:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753785AbYJBW4c (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:56:32 -0400 Received: from mylar.outflux.net ([69.93.193.226]:51325 "EHLO mylar.outflux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753492AbYJBW4c (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:56:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:56:24 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file Message-ID: <20081002225624.GK10632@outflux.net> References: <20081002211424.GJ10632@outflux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Canonical X-HELO: www.outflux.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 25 Heya Randy, On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:31PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Kees Cook wrote: > > There is no sane way to query the personality flags of arbitrary process > > from userspace. This adds the flags to the /proc/$pid/status file. > > The patch seems to be missing an update to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt ! > Please add that. TIA. The /proc/pid/status file is "self documenting" (in theory), and doesn't have separate documentation in proc.txt yet. If I had touched the "stat" file, I would have included and update, since I was the last to document that file. ;) -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/