Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045AbYJGQOn (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:14:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753272AbYJGQOd (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:14:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.outflux.net ([198.145.64.163]:60218 "EHLO smtp.outflux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753649AbYJGQOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:14:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:14:22 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality Message-ID: <20081007161422.GD10357@outflux.net> References: <20081002211424.GJ10632@outflux.net> <20081004145149.52c34ee7@infradead.org> <20081004220220.GK10632@outflux.net> <20081004164239.0c1483a4@infradead.org> <20081005004233.GL10632@outflux.net> <20081004174843.6fe48a8e@infradead.org> <20081005091120.GA21003@x200.localdomain> <20081005101438.GR10632@outflux.net> <517f3f820810070639q549ed2a1pe297e45108dfa007@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <517f3f820810070639q549ed2a1pe297e45108dfa007@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1061 Lines: 26 Hi Michael, On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:39:26PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > Make process personality flags visible in /proc. Since a process's > > personality is potentially sensitive (e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC), make this > > file only readable by the process owner. > > Please CC userland interface changes to linux-api@vger.kernel.org Sure, I'd be happy to do that for future stuff. I don't see this email address mentioned anywhere in the kernel tree. It seems like this is useful information that should go in either MAINTAINERS or better yet Documentation/SubmittingPatches for it to be discoverable by future patch-senders -- and somewhere that I can look it up easily later. :) -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/