linux/fs/proc
Linus Torvalds 8ee74a91ac proc: try to remove use of FOLL_FORCE entirely
We fixed the bugs in it, but it's still an ugly interface, so let's see
if anybody actually depends on it.  It's entirely possible that nothing
actually requires the whole "punch through read-only mappings"
semantics.

For example, gdb definitely uses the /proc/<pid>/mem interface, but it
looks like it mainly does it for regular reads of the target (that don't
need FOLL_FORCE), and looking at the gdb source code seems to fall back
on the traditional ptrace(PTRACE_POKEDATA) interface if it needs to.

If this breaks something, I do have a (more complex) version that only
enables FOLL_FORCE when somebody has PTRACE_ATTACH'ed to the target,
like the comment here used to say ("Maybe we should limit FOLL_FORCE to
actual ptrace users?").

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-09 08:45:16 -07:00
..
Kconfig fs, proc: add help for CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN 2015-07-17 16:39:52 -07:00
Makefile fs/proc: Add compiler check for -Wno-override-init to support gcc < 4.2 2016-08-03 12:45:23 -04:00
array.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
base.c proc: try to remove use of FOLL_FORCE entirely 2017-05-09 08:45:16 -07:00
cmdline.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
consoles.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
cpuinfo.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
devices.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
fd.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
fd.h proc: unsigned file descriptors 2016-09-27 18:47:38 -04:00
generic.c proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers 2017-04-28 21:05:26 -05:00
inode.c fs/proc/inode.c: remove cast from memory allocation 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
internal.h Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
interrupts.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
kcore.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
kmsg.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
loadavg.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/stat.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
meminfo.c meminfo: break apart a very long seq_printf with #ifdefs 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
namespaces.c pidns: expose task pid_ns_for_children to userspace 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
nommu.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
page.c mm: fix KPF_SWAPCACHE in /proc/kpageflags 2017-02-07 12:08:32 -08:00
proc_net.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
proc_sysctl.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
proc_tty.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
root.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
self.c vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
softirqs.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
stat.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
task_mmu.c proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -07:00
task_nommu.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
thread_self.c vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
uptime.c sched/cputime: Convert kcpustat to nsecs 2017-02-01 09:13:47 +01:00
version.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
vmcore.c userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00