[PATCH 3.16 011/305] timer/debug: Change /proc/timer_list from 0444 to 0400

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Feb 03 2019 - 08:50:19 EST


3.16.63-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8e7df2b5b7f245c9bd11064712db5cb69044a362 upstream.

While it uses %pK, there's still few reasons to read this file
as non-root.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/timer_list.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/time/timer_list.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer_list.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int __init init_timer_list_procfs
{
struct proc_dir_entry *pe;

- pe = proc_create("timer_list", 0444, NULL, &timer_list_fops);
+ pe = proc_create("timer_list", 0400, NULL, &timer_list_fops);
if (!pe)
return -ENOMEM;
return 0;