Re: [PATCH] proc: allow restricting /proc/pid/mem writes

[Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:33 PM Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > [...]
> > > +config SECURITY_PROC_MEM_RESTRICT_WRITES
> >
> > Instead of a build-time CONFIG, I'd prefer a boot-time config (or a
> > sysctl, but that's be harder given the perms). That this is selectable
> > by distro users, etc, and they don't need to rebuild their kernel to
> > benefit from it.
>
> Ack, I'll implement a cmdline arg in v2.

Any objections to doing both? Have a CONFIG option for a default and a
cmdline to override it? This way if a distro wants to restrict writes
by default then don't need to jam more stuff into the kernel command
line.

-Doug