From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 23:26:46 +0000 (-0700) Subject: c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file X-Git-Tag: v3.5-rc1~21^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b32dfe377102ce668775f8b6b1461f7ad428f8b6;p=pandora-kernel.git c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file When we do restore we would like to have a way to setup a former mm_struct::exe_file so that /proc/pid/exe would point to the original executable file a process had at checkpoint time. For this the PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE code is introduced. This option takes a file descriptor which will be set as a source for new /proc/$pid/exe symlink. Note it allows to change /proc/$pid/exe if there are no VM_EXECUTABLE vmas present for current process, simply because this feature is a special to C/R and mm::num_exe_file_vmas become meaningless after that. To minimize the amount of transition the /proc/pid/exe symlink might have, this feature is implemented in one-shot manner. Thus once changed the symlink can't be changed again. This should help sysadmins to monitor the symlinks over all process running in a system. In particular one could make a snapshot of processes and ring alarm if there unexpected changes of /proc/pid/exe's in a system. Note -- this feature is available iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is set and the caller must have CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability granted, otherwise the request to change symlink will be rejected. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Matt Helsley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed