Re: [PATCH v5] Added PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA option for prctl()

[Bryan Donlan]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What happens if userspace unmaps the memory after telling the kernel to
> use it?
>
> Will processes which try to read the command line get an error reading
> /proc?  If so, do all the commandline-reading programs in the world
> handle this in an appropriate fashion?

This case can already occur in the current code; the userspace process
would have to munmap() the top of its stack, but it certainly can do
so if it tries. In any case, access_process_vm() then returns 0
because of the fault, and thus /proc/pid/cmdline is seen to have zero
length. Since a zero-length /proc/pid/cmdline occurs with kernel
threads as well, we know this isn't a problem.
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