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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] userfaultfd: support control over mm of remote PIDs
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:29:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83827672-0996-4c25-9991-697ad443b6b3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210926170637.245699-1-namit@vmware.com>

On 26.09.21 19:06, Nadav Amit wrote:
> From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> 
> Non-cooperative mode is useful but only for forked processes.
> Userfaultfd can be useful to monitor, debug and manage memory of remote
> processes.
> 
> To support this mode, add a new flag, UFFD_REMOTE_PID, and an optional
> second argument to the userfaultfd syscall. When the flag is set, the
> second argument is assumed to be the PID of the process that is to be
> monitored. Otherwise the flag is ignored.
> 
> The syscall enforces that the caller has CAP_SYS_PTRACE to prevent
> misuse of this feature.

What supposed to happen if the target process intents to use uffd itself?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-27  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-26 17:06 Nadav Amit
2021-09-27  9:29 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-09-27 10:19   ` Nadav Amit
2021-09-27 17:06     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-09-27 20:08       ` Nadav Amit
2021-09-27 20:11         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-13  2:18 ` Peter Xu
2021-10-13 16:02   ` Nadav Amit

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