| Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:02:27 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [Patch v3 06/13] mm: Pass task instead of task->mm as argument to set_dumpable |
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:59:34AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > Change the argument to set_dumpable from task->mm to task. This allows us > to later add hooks to modify a task's property according to whether it is > a non-dumpable task. Non dumpable tasks demand a higher level of security. > Changes the dumpable value from in to unsigned int as negative number is > not allowed.
Per task dumpable doesn't make any kind of sense. Dumpable is about coredumps, that's an mm property.
If you want to introduce other (per task) state; give that a new name and check for that explicitly. Don't create confusion like this.
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