On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:50:30PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fri, 04.10.13 11:00, Ramkumar Ramachandra (artag...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Kernel hackers need access to the debugfs filesystem. For instance, see > > the performance subsystem (tools/perf in the kernel tree); we should let > > all users, not just root, run the perf tool to collect performance > > information about their programs by default. > > There has been a constant forth and back on this topic regarding what > the default should be. > > It used to be open, and then it was requested to be closed: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864080 > > The kernel folks committed this: > > https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=82aceae4f0d42f03d9ad7d1e90389e731153898f > > For me this settles the story for the time being: as long as that is the > default the kernel guys think is appropriate we really should stick to > it. If you don't like this default, please talk to the kernel folks and > convince them to open this up again, and we'll just inherit that then. I > don't think we should override kernel defaults in this area.
The kernel defaults for debugfs will not be changed, unless some core debugfs and vfs changes get finished and merged, and I don't see that happening anytime soon. So keeping this locked down for everyone but root is a _very_ good idea, thanks for not changing it. greg k-h _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel