On Tuesday, July 23, 2024 21:30 EEST, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 10:18, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
> >
> > This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing
> > the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because
> > it can be abused.
>
> Ack, this looks much simp
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 11:30, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> but while that looks a bit prettier, the whole "fs_parser.h" thing is
> admittedly odd.
.. don't get me wrong - /proc obviously *is* a filesystem, but in this
context it's a boot command line parameter, not a mount option.
The "constant_tab
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 at 10:18, Adrian Ratiu wrote:
>
> This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing
> the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because
> it can be abused.
Ack, this looks much simpler.
That said, I think this can be prettied up some more:
> +enum proc_mem
This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing
the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because
it can be abused.
The traditional forcing behavior is kept as default because
it can break GDB and some other use cases.
Previously we tried a more sophisticated approach allowin
