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

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Message-ID: <20070422083941.GA7945@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:39:41 +0200
From:	Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user

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>

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