for (mmap = p->mm->mmap; mmap; mmap =
mmap->vm_next) {
if ((mmap->vm_flags & VM_EXEC) &&
(!(mmap->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
&& mmap->vm_file &&
mmap->vm_file->f_dentry) {
Hi,
I am new to the linux kernel. This is a code segment
where a pseudo driver is going thru segments attached
to a running process I believe.
My question is that what kind of segment is this?
vm_flags with VM_EXEC and VM_WRITE seem to mean it's
'exec' or 'lib' segments. For these, I assume mmap->
vm_file should exist. This makes sense also.
Why vm_file->f_dentry is also tested? I could not
find much pointer on this myself.
Thanks alot.
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