linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v4.14-rc1

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Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2017 12:51:30 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Kralevich <nnk@...gle.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v4.14-rc1

Hi,

Please pull these pstore changes for v4.14-rc1. Not much happening in
pstore for this release. One change to permission management, noted below.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit 520eccdfe187591a51ea9ab4c1a024ae4d0f68d9:

  Linux 4.13-rc2 (2017-07-23 16:15:17 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v4.14-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to c71b02e4d207cbcf097f9746d5f7967b22905e70:

  Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps" (2017-08-17 16:29:19 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Make pstore permissions more versatile by removing CAP_SYSLOG requirement
and defining more restrictive root directory DAC permissions default
(0750, which can be adjust after boot unlike the CAP_SYSLOG check).
Suggested by Nick Kralevich.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Kees Cook (2):
      pstore: Make default pstorefs root dir perms 0750
      Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps"

 fs/pstore/inode.c      | 24 +-----------------------
 include/linux/syslog.h |  9 ---------
 kernel/printk/printk.c |  3 +--
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security