Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps"

[Petr Mladek]

On Thu 2017-08-10 13:36:35, Kees Cook wrote:
> This reverts commit 68c4a4f8abc60c9440ede9cd123d48b78325f7a3, with
> various conflict clean-ups.
> 
> With the default root directory mode set to 0750 now, the capability
> check was redundant.
> 
> Suggested-by: Nick Kralevich <nnk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

The patch looks correct from the code side. I looked at
it because it touched printk.c. Note that I am not
security expert.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Petr