Re: [RFC] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v2

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:42:44AM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 08/24/2011 09:36 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >> No and this is the trick - when you readlink it - it give you trash, but
> >> when you open one - you get exactly the same file as the map points to.
> > 
> > Isn't that a minor security hole?
> > 
> > For example if I pass a file descriptor into a chroot process for
> > reading, and with this interface you can open it for writing too.
> > I could see this causing problems.
> 
> How does it differ from the /proc/pid/fd links?

Those cannot be opened I thought.
-Andi

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