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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)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:00:13 +0000 (13:00 -0800)
commitc3896af3daf9df2a8595115b702fcbf87c421b97
treeeaf9ea59c9de3b54b6a32f88705d03d50058b07e
parentf527adaae15b91b1e30b48f3e328e2104b989463
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