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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:04:53 +0000 (13:04 -0800)
commit6824291b4a7d2a9894acbb6a83a960e6e760c549
tree464f964726059a57317bb3f73360ff07c69ca918
parent903846251193f6545fb3acd1a9a491626a4ed7ce
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>
kernel/taskstats.c