Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:42:33 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:42:39PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:02:20 -0700
> Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
> > Nothing else seemed appropriate, but I could make a brand new proc
> > file, if that's sensible.  "status_private" ?
> 
> how about a file called "personality" that has each set bit as an ascii
> version ?
> (one per line maybe)

Well, it's a one-to-many due to how the personality types are defined,
so doing a bitfield-to-ASCII-names conversion wouldn't really work out:

        PER_SCOSVR3 =           0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS |
                                         WHOLE_SECONDS | SHORT_INODE,
        PER_OSR5 =              0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | WHOLE_SECONDS,
...
        PER_BSD =               0x0006,
        PER_SUNOS =             0x0006 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS,

But I can certainly just make it a stand-alone file with just the
bitfield.  Or, I can still do the conversion and ignore PER_OSR5 and
PER_SUNOS.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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