linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 06/31] timer/debug: Change /proc/timer

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Message-Id: <20181220085742.844336923@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:18:18 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 06/31] timer/debug: Change /proc/timer_list from 0444 to 0400

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 8e7df2b5b7f245c9bd11064712db5cb69044a362 ]

While it uses %pK, there's still few reasons to read this file
as non-root.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/time/timer_list.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_list.c b/kernel/time/timer_list.c
index 61ed862cdd37..37d7e4d29e5f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer_list.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer_list.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int __init init_timer_list_procfs(void)
 {
 	struct proc_dir_entry *pe;
 
-	pe = proc_create("timer_list", 0444, NULL, &timer_list_fops);
+	pe = proc_create("timer_list", 0400, NULL, &timer_list_fops);
 	if (!pe)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	return 0;
-- 
2.19.1