From b32dfe377102ce668775f8b6b1461f7ad428f8b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26:46 -0700 Subject: 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 --- include/linux/prctl.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h index 18d84c4b42d8..711e0a30aacc 100644 --- a/include/linux/prctl.h +++ b/include/linux/prctl.h @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ # define PR_SET_MM_ENV_START 10 # define PR_SET_MM_ENV_END 11 # define PR_SET_MM_AUXV 12 +# define PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE 13 /* * Set specific pid that is allowed to ptrace the current task. -- cgit v1.2.3