The patch titled
Allow reading tainted flag as user
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
allow-reading-tainted-flag-as-user.patch
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Subject: Allow reading tainted flag as user
From: Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading
of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a
write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~allow-reading-tainted-flag-as-user kernel/sysctl.c
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c~allow-reading-tainted-flag-as-user
+++ a/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ static int proc_dointvec_taint(ctl_table
{
int op;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
op = OP_OR;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
allow-reading-tainted-flag-as-user.patch
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