Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752949Ab2HBLL6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:11:58 -0400 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:44637 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751758Ab2HBLLx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:11:53 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: Kees Cook , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Darren Hart , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Jiri Kosina , David Howells , "Serge E. Hallyn" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, spender@grsecurity.net References: <20120323190855.GA27213@www.outflux.net> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:11:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: (richard's message of "Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:35:57 +0200") Message-ID: <87pq7935w2.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1/wd0Jn2EXs6XBMto5EyOMyYi8sD0IucMA= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 T_XMDrugObfuBody_08 obfuscated drug references X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;richard -rw- weinberger X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] futex: mark get_robust_list as deprecated X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:31:04 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 31 richard -rw- weinberger writes: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Kees Cook wrote: >> Notify get_robust_list users that the syscall is going away. >> >> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook >> --- > > I'm using this system call in an application and noticed that's marked > as deprecated now. > My application collects all kind of information from crashing programs. > It's installed in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern. > > If program X is crashing it executes get_robust_list(X) to get the > address of the robust list > and reads the list from /proc/X/mem. > > Is there another way to get the robust list from another program (by it's pid)? The folks doing checkpoint/restart claim to not need this, so there might be a way either that or they just haven't hit this problem yet. What you are doing sounds like a reasonable use of get_robust_list to me. Eric -- 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/