On Wed 19-10-16 10:06:46, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > yes this is the desirable and expected behavior. > > > > > wonder if this is desirable behaviour or whether this ought to be limited to > > > ptrace system calls. Regardless, by making the flag more visible it makes it > > > easier to see that this is happening. > > > > mem_open already enforces PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH > > Ah I missed this, that makes a lot of sense, thanks! > > I still wonder whether other invocations of access_remote_vm() in fs/proc/base.c > (the principle caller of this function) need FOLL_FORCE, for example the various > calls that simply read data from other processes, so I think the point stands > about keeping this explicit. I do agree. Making them explicit will help to clean them up later, should there be a need. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>