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Subjectchange in protections of /proc/$pid/mem
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Hi,

In e268337dfe26dfc7efd422a804dbb27977a3cccc, the logic for interacting
with /dev/$pid/mem was changed. It seems that the requirement that the
reader/writer must be actively attached to the inferior has been
dropped. Is this wise, to allow multiple read/writers of /dev/$pid/mem
even if they are not ptracing? The protection has been there for a
while, and I don't see the reason for removing it. I can't find a
discussion about this change -- where did that happen?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
ChromeOS Security


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