netdev - Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command as non-root

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:48:33 +0100
From:	"Benjamin Thery" <ben.thery@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tilman@...p.cc, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pekkas@...core.fi, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	dlezcano@...ibm.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command as non-root

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org> wrote:
>
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>  > On Thursday, 20 of March 2008, Benjamin Thery wrote:
>  >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:49 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>  >>> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>  >>>  Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:16:08 -0700
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>  > Although this is advertised as a 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 problem, I assume the
>  >>>  > regression is also in mainline? 2.6.25-rc6?
>  >>>
>  >>>  It is in 2.6.25-rc6, correct.
>  >>>
>  >>>  If Pavel or someone else doesn't produce a good fix soon
>  >>>  I'll revert the guilty change as this bug is worse than
>  >>>  the problem that changeset fixes.
>  >> Andre Noll sent a patch to LKML, acked by Pavel:
>  >>
>  >> "Fix permissions of /proc/net"
>  >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/655148
>  >
>  > Have you tested that patch?
>
>  I did - works OK, that's why I Acked it.

Also tested here. It fixes the regression.


Benjamin
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