[CRIU] [PATCH] cr-super: Initial commit

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Thu Sep 17 06:04:52 PDT 2015


On 09/16/2015 04:24 PM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

>> It may have its reasons for that.  If it does not, then the kernel should
>> be fixed and simply provide access (if the process is dumpable, a check
>> which is much safer to implement inside the kernel).
> 
> Of course, but we still have to work on older kernels without the fix.

What's the reason for that?  libffi closures support?  Those memory
segments are so small they could copy them with ptrace (more tricky is
that you have to restore aliasing).

Or is checkpointing libraries which use outdated and removed binaries
functionality that is critical to you?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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