On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul Jackson wrote:
> * Christoph - what is the permissions check on sys_migrate_pages()?
> It would seem inappropriate for 'guest' to be able to move the
> memory of 'root'.
The check is missing.
Maybe we could add:
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
return -EPERM;
Then we may also decide that root can move any process anywhere and drop
the retrieval of the mems_allowed from the other task.
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