On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:09:57 +0000 Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>       Contents of /proc/*/maps is sensitive and may become sensitive
> after open() (e.g. if target originally shares our ->mm and later
> does exec on suid-root binary).

um, which contents?

>       Check at read() (actually, ->start() of iterator) time that
> mm_struct we'd grabbed and locked is
>       * still the ->mm of target
>       * equal to reader's ->mm or the target is ptracable by reader.
> 

Specifically, do /proc/pid/smaps and the maps4 goodies in -mm need similar
treatment?

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