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proc: remove kernel.maps_protect

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After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
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Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-10 03:27:16 +04:00
parent 45acb8db06
commit 3bbfe05967
6 changed files with 1 additions and 43 deletions
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kernel/sysctl.c
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@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
extern int compat_log;
extern int maps_protect;
extern int latencytop_enabled;
extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
@@ -809,16 +808,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "maps_protect",
.data = &maps_protect,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,