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

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:36:35 -0700
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> What's wrong with redundancy?

In this case, it actually _blocks_ system builders from being able to
define the access controls on pstore. :(

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security