On Fri 08-10-21 13:58:01, Kees Cook wrote: > - Strings for "anon" specifically have no required format (this is good) > it's informational like the task_struct::comm and can (roughly) > anything. There's no naming convention for memfds, AF_UNIX, etc. Why > is one needed here? That seems like a completely unreasonable > requirement. I might be misreading the justification for the feature. Patch 2 is talking about tools that need to understand memeory usage to make further actions. Also Suren was suggesting "numbering convetion" as an argument against. So can we get a clear example how is this being used actually? If this is just to be used to debug by humans than I can see an argument for human readable form. If this is, however, meant to be used by tools to make some actions then the argument for strings is much weaker. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
