On 08/03, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> The question is, why m_start() calls mm_access(). This is not even
> strictly correct if the task execs between m_stop() + m_start().
>
> Can't we do something like below? The patch is obviously horrible and
> incomplete, just to explain what I meant. Basically this is what
> proc_mem_operations does.

Absolutely untested, only for review.

What do you all think?

Sure, with this change you can't open (say) /proc/pid/maps, and read the
new mappings after exec. But hopefully this is fine? And again, this
matches /proc/pid/mem.

lock_trace() users need another fix.

Oleg.

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