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Make TASKSTATS require root access
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:04:37 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:38:05 +0000 (15:38 +0100)
commit52556d4b189c73376320ff502204db73c1ce4455
tree40465bf7dfa66ffe4994992d112ad990cb3a9698
parent75016c6eb34d4e3a840a4b7dc2faf05e7715b105
Make TASKSTATS require root access

commit 1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 upstream.

Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin
capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more.  But at the
same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read
anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level.

Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative
to checking the capabilities by hand.

Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
kernel/taskstats.c