[CRIU] [PATCH 0/4] Make CRIU work from with non-root prios

Cyrill Gorcunov gorcunov at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 15:06:14 PDT 2015


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:01:35AM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is prerequisite to address the recent CVE-s. We should make criu be
> able to work from regular user. The biggest obstacle so far is -- inability
> to use map_files directory. So 3 out of 4 patches in this set handle _this_.
> 
> The rest one handles the access to pagemap and soft-dirty tracking reset.
> The latter is fixed in recent kernels (just PFN-s are not reported, but
> we can live w/o it). Soft-dirty tracking will not be accessible for regular
> user dumps, but this also can be fixed later.
> 
> Cyrill, I need your help on several things with this set:
> 
> 1. fixing the VDSO detection/fixups, as I currently just ignore them
> 2. passing correct name to memfd in patch #4, right now I use argv[0]
>    of the task we dump %)
> 3. removing the service from default setup

Thanks, I'll grab the series and try to find a timeslot tomorrow,
but no promises ;)


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