resent 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 Ľu„