[Patch] proc: drop write permission on 'timer_list' and 'slabinfo'

From: Amerigo Wang
Date: Mon Aug 17 2009 - 05:44:10 EST



/proc/timer_list and /proc/slabinfo are not supposed to be written,
so there should be no write permissions on it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_list.c b/kernel/time/timer_list.c
index a999b92..fddd69d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer_list.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer_list.c
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static int __init init_timer_list_procfs(void)
{
struct proc_dir_entry *pe;

- pe = proc_create("timer_list", 0644, NULL, &timer_list_fops);
+ pe = proc_create("timer_list", 0444, NULL, &timer_list_fops);
if (!pe)
return -ENOMEM;
return 0;
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 7b5d4de..a19e4be 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -4473,7 +4473,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_slabstats_operations = {

static int __init slab_proc_init(void)
{
- proc_create("slabinfo",S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO,NULL,&proc_slabinfo_operations);
+ proc_create("slabinfo",S_IRUSR|S_IRUGO,NULL,&proc_slabinfo_operations);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
proc_create("slab_allocators", 0, NULL, &proc_slabstats_operations);
#endif
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index b9f1491..aba2c1b 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4726,7 +4726,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_slabinfo_operations = {

static int __init slab_proc_init(void)
{
- proc_create("slabinfo",S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO,NULL,&proc_slabinfo_operations);
+ proc_create("slabinfo",S_IRUSR|S_IRUGO,NULL,&proc_slabinfo_operations);
return 0;
}
module_init(slab_proc_init);
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