Re: [PATCH] proc: fix NULL dereference when reading /proc/<pid>/auxv
From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Oct 19 2016 - 12:13:42 EST
On 10/19, Michal Hocko wrote:
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> Why would we even want to open that file if there is no mm struct?
Agreed this is strange, but I am not sure we can change this old
behaviour. Say, cat /proc/$pid-of-kthread/mem doesn't fail, it shows
the "empty mm".
Oleg.