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Commit: 91fcd412e957f433e9f1abeb0b1926dbeb66ca80
Parent: 94e22e13ad063c614b458a019b428ffc118e5c06
Author: Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 23 14:41:14 2007 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Tue Apr 24 08:23:08 2007 -0700
Allow reading tainted flag as user
The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading
of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a
write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 1b255df..c904748 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ static int proc_dointvec_taint(ctl_table *table, int
write, struct file *filp,
{
int op;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
op = OP_OR;
-
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