The patch titled sysctl: check for bogus modes has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sysctl: check for bogus modes From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Catch, e. g., 644/0644 typo. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl_check.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/sysctl_check.c~sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes kernel/sysctl_check.c --- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c~sysctl-check-for-bogus-modes +++ a/kernel/sysctl_check.c @@ -1532,6 +1532,8 @@ int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *n sysctl_check_leaf(namespaces, table, &fail); } sysctl_check_bin_path(table, &fail); + if (table->mode > 0777) + set_fail(&fail, table, "bogus .mode"); if (fail) { set_fail(&fail, table, NULL); error = -EINVAL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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