On 5/19/06, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
Alan hacked on this iirc so he might comment.
Al Viro has a similar patch in the FC kernels to govern read access to
/proc/*/maps based on the ptrace permissions. This is probably the
same problem. If you can use ptrace on the target process there is no
security reason why /proc/*/mem access shouldn't be granted.
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