linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/slabinfo

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Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:41:41 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Cc:	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/slabinfo

On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 20:41 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> @@ -4584,7 +4584,8 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_slabstats_operations = {
>  
>  static int __init slab_proc_init(void)
>  {
> -       proc_create("slabinfo",S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO,NULL,&proc_slabinfo_operations);
> +       proc_create("slabinfo", S_IWUSR | S_IRUSR, NULL,
> +                   &proc_slabinfo_operations);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
>         proc_create("slab_allocators", 0, NULL, &proc_sla 

If you respin this, please don't muck with the whitespace.  Otherwise,
I'm fine with this.  Distros are already starting to do this anyway in
userspace.

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- Dave

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