Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756694AbYJHCpd (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:45:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755588AbYJHCpY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:45:24 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.227]:61688 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754955AbYJHCpX (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:45:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references; b=I6EbnKgpG5Yg/7XIgFDQWvYuWv9b9TL3VzBoHE5DINKA/McKufNsS6K75IcerL1CS/ qNqJqy18VpANmylgjZnLHhZAl0jixD1AUTp1IKT/EWPHka9WmD3fiL6zBAYymzUINKnu qjALWA1TKHqgObDVxalsmUvMcpXs0W/C4f1mg= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 04:45:22 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com To: "Kees Cook" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality Cc: "Alexey Dobriyan" , "Arjan van de Ven" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20081007161422.GD10357@outflux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> <20081007161422.GD10357@outflux.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1453 Lines: 32 Hi Kees, On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > 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. :) It's there, but only as of a few days ago. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- 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/