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Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:59:22 +0100
From:	Peter Palfrader <peter@...frader.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files on 2.6.27

Hi,

on several (probably all) of my systems running a 2.6.27 kernel on at
least i386, amd64, ia64, sparc proc/sys does have files not owned by
root:

weasel@...la:~$ find /proc/sys ! -uid 0 -ls
2273612    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
2273615    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid
2273616    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
2273621    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
2273622    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/acct
2273623    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
2273624    0 -rw-------   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid
2273625    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
2217102    0 -r--r--r--   1 joy      Debian          0 Nov 16 19:57 /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2273626    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/overflowuid
2273627    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/overflowgid
2273628    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops
2273635    0 -r--r--r--   1 nobody   nogroup         0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type
2273636    0 -rw-r--r--   1 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/kstack_depth_to_print
2273638    0 -rw-r--r--   1 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
2273598    0 dr-xr-xr-x   0 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:55 /proc/sys/vm
2209118    0 -r--r--r--   1 joy      Debian          0 Nov 16 19:50 /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
weasel@...la:~$ uname -a
Linux villa 2.6.27.6-dsa-dl380-oldxeon #2 SMP Fri Nov 14 01:40:49 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux


weasel@...el:~$ find /proc/sys ! -uid 0 -ls
3917380    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns
3917381    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_ns
3917382    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_shares_ratelimit
3917383    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_child_runs_first
3917384    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features
3917387    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us
3917388    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
3917389    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield
3847910    0 -rw-r--r--   1 joeyh    Debian          0 Nov 16 20:11 /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
3917373    0 dr-xr-xr-x   0 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/fs
3917376    0 dr-xr-xr-x   0 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:57 /proc/sys/net
weasel@...el:~$ uname -a
Linux ravel 2.6.27.6-dsa-amd64-opteron #2 SMP Fri Nov 14 01:32:43 CET 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

weasel@...allero:~$ find /proc/sys ! -uid 0 -ls
  6950    0 -rw-r--r--   1 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns
  6951    0 -rw-r--r--   1 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns
  6955    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features
  6959    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
  2173    0 -r--r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:35 /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
  6971    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/overflowuid
  6972    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/overflowgid
  6973    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops
  6974    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/printk_ratelimit
  6975    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/printk_ratelimit_burst
  6978    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_panic
  6979    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_thresh
  6980    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:48 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_check_count
  1618    0 -r--r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 20:35 /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
weasel@...allero:~$ uname -a
Linux caballero 2.6.27.2-dsa-mckinley #1 SMP Sun Oct 19 12:14:46 UTC 2008 ia64 GNU/Linux

weasel@...ntini:~$ find /proc/sys ! -uid 0 -ls
 41263    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/panic
 41264    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid
 41267    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
 41271    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/scons-poweroff
 41272    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del
 41273    0 -r--r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/sg-big-buff
 41280    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/printk
 41291    0 -r--r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/version
 41292    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
 41293    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
 41294    0 -rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
  5299    0 -r--r--r--   1 nobody   munin           0 Nov 16 19:22 /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
 41259    0 dr-xr-xr-x   0 weasel   Debian          0 Nov 16 20:58 /proc/sys/debug
weasel@...ntini:~$ uname -a
Linux spontini 2.6.27.2-dsa-usii #2 SMP Sun Oct 19 16:34:26 CEST 2008 sparc64 GNU/Linux


That's probably not how it should be, right?

Peter
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