linux-kernel - Re: [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > +	proc_create("vmallocinfo",S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO, NULL,
> why should non-root be able to read this? sounds like a security issue (info leak) to me...

Well I copied from the slabinfo logic (leaking info for slabs is okay?).

Lets restrict it to root then:



Subject: vmallocinfo: Only allow root to read /proc/vmallocinfo

Change permissions for /proc/vmallocinfo to only allow read
for root.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

---
 fs/proc/proc_misc.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.25-rc5-mm1/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc5-mm1.orig/fs/proc/proc_misc.c	2008-03-20 12:14:20.215358835 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-mm1/fs/proc/proc_misc.c	2008-03-20 12:23:01.920887750 -0700
@@ -1002,8 +1002,7 @@ void __init proc_misc_init(void)
 	proc_create("slab_allocators", 0, NULL, &proc_slabstats_operations);
 #endif
 #endif
-	proc_create("vmallocinfo",S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO, NULL,
-						&proc_vmalloc_operations);
+	proc_create("vmallocinfo",S_IRUSR, NULL, &proc_vmalloc_operations);
 	proc_create("buddyinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &fragmentation_file_operations);
 	proc_create("pagetypeinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &pagetypeinfo_file_ops);
 	proc_create("vmstat", S_IRUGO, NULL, &proc_vmstat_file_operations);
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