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| author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2008-10-10 03:27:16 +0400 |
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| committer | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2008-10-10 04:24:51 +0400 |
| commit | 3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 057d3d2aa8cb68eff8c944378e86ba120eff9cf4 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 45acb8db06bad529f0feaf89465ce33152640089 (diff) | |
proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index f566ad9bcb7..63ed861d5ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1332,13 +1332,6 @@ determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize. -maps_protect ------------- - -Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and -"smaps". When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to -readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process. - msgmni ------ |