Make TASKSTATS require root access
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:04:37 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:57:40 +0000 (12:57 -0800)
commitb2c51348a4e6b08bb493b2b33d06df89d1a9a0bc
tree82fe8ebc70b477d46156a4290bb66c21abed9300
parentb98eb43012d8679aa6c9e5527a7cc5706ee192f6
Make TASKSTATS require root access

commit 1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 upstream.

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>
Cc: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/taskstats.c