On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 05:02:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:23:39 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > /proc/*/cmdline is not different from /proc/*/environ as it accesses
> > target task's memory (and can access the very same region of memory)
> > but it doesn't go through ptrace_may_access() and thus doesn't go through
> > LSM.
>
> This change can cause existing code to break, no?
>
> I'd like to see, in the changelog, a full explanation of why this won't
> break any existing setup?
It can. In fact, I'm not sure about this patch anymore.
Original /proc/*/cmdline hook did get_cmdline() which is basically GUP.
It is just nobody said anything when /proc/*/cmdline got rewritten and
security folks aren't bitching about it:
$ cat /proc/1/cmdline
init [3]
I'll resend the rest of cmdline changes if they gets broken.
