The patch titled Allow reading tainted flag as user has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was allow-reading-tainted-flag-as-user.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 origin.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html