The patch titled
Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpable
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-docs-for-fssuid_dumpable-6145.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpable
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but
fs.suid_dumpable.
How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows...
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 20 --------------------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt~fix-docs-for-fssuid_dumpable-6145 Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt~fix-docs-for-fssuid_dumpable-6145
+++ a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/
- inode-state
- overflowuid
- overflowgid
+- suid_dumpable
- super-max
- super-nr
@@ -131,6 +132,25 @@ The default is 65534.
==============================================================
+suid_dumpable:
+
+This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid
+or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are
+
+0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed
+ privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped
+1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is
+ owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is
+ intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.
+2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped
+ readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove
+ such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons
+ core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or
+ other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are
+ attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.
+
+==============================================================
+
super-max & super-nr:
These numbers control the maximum number of superblocks, and
diff -puN Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt~fix-docs-for-fssuid_dumpable-6145 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt~fix-docs-for-fssuid_dumpable-6145
+++ a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- shmmax [ sysv ipc ]
- shmmni
- stop-a [ SPARC only ]
-- suid_dumpable
- sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt
- tainted
- threads-max
@@ -310,25 +309,6 @@ kernel. This value defaults to SHMMAX.
==============================================================
-suid_dumpable:
-
-This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid
-or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are
-
-0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed
- privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped
-1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is
- owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is
- intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.
-2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped
- readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove
- such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons
- core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or
- other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are
- attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.
-
-==============================================================
-
tainted:
Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
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