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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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:04:37 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
commit2ca5f7b04d6c1bf4995e8354ce5bc8e674c9196f
treefc8a3d70b9fca3692e33e528a420eae1e5407850
parent1795db2227c713af50bb964ec1c5a214405dd16a
Make TASKSTATS require root access

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>
kernel/taskstats.c