Andreas Ferber wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:43PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > For a read only case, the only important
> > thing is not to die, one occurrence of bad data is tolerable.
>
> Strong NACK. The pages where the bad data comes from may in some cases
> already be reclaimed for other data, probably something security
> relevant, which should never ever be given even read access by an
> unauthorized user. Even if this event may be a very rare case, one
> single occurrence of this is one to much.
Agreed. Worse, it is not readonly. The /proc code task_lock's the task
struct, thus writing to it.
I'll post a patch shortly once I've tested it. Worse case only if the
task is exiting I sweep the tasklist looking for the parent to see if
the parent is still valid. I am not verifying if it is the actual
parent (it might be a new task allocated at the same spot). I could
just report 0 (or 1) for the parent for any process that is exiting, but
then you won't be able to see the ppid for zombies. Or is there another
state I can look for? What I really need is PF_EXITED :).
I am a little concerned also about mm, file, tty and sig fields. These
appear to be NULLed in do_exit(), but I haven't tracked down tty and sig
yet.
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