linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user

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Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:50:45 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:39:41 +0200 Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org> wrote:

> The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading
> of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a
> write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>

there's no patch here.

And I'd be interested to see it, because Ted's patch converted it from 0444
to 0644, which sounds right.
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