tree 59b9e22b0de119f0d85f329fa481d965cf7aec42
parent 5e5997849a8eae7a895a88699a1999b637f87303
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1326842479 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1326842479 -0800

proc: clean up and fix /proc/<pid>/mem handling

Jüri Aedla reported that the /proc/<pid>/mem handling really isn't very
robust, and it also doesn't match the permission checking of any of the
other related files.

This changes it to do the permission checks at open time, and instead of
tracking the process, it tracks the VM at the time of the open.  That
simplifies the code a lot, but does mean that if you hold the file
descriptor open over an execve(), you'll continue to read from the _old_
VM.

That is different from our previous behavior, but much simpler.  If
somebody actually finds a load where this matters, we'll need to revert
this commit.

I suspect that nobody will ever notice - because the process mapping
addresses will also have changed as part of the execve.  So you cannot
actually usefully access the fd across a VM change simply because all
the offsets for IO would have changed too.

Reported-by: Jüri Aedla <asd@ut.ee>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>