Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 20/20] mm: rename FOLL_FORCE to FOLL_PTRACE

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On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:16:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There _are_ also small random cases too, like get_cmdline(). Maybe
> that counts as ptrace, but the execve() case most definitely does not.

Oh, er, why does get_arg_page() even need FOLL_FORCE? This is writing the
new stack contents to the nascent brpm->vma, which was newly allocated
with VM_STACK_FLAGS, which an arch can override, but they all appear to include
VM_WRITE | VM_MAYWRITE.

-- 
Kees Cook



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