Make TASKSTATS require root access
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:04:37 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:45:04 +0000 (16:45 -0500)
commit9e3e877bb1a15d180207fd191058ac7e3da91d30
treedf1efdd9ec6d43a802d76e9d39b58d72fecb3b26
parentdf58c339ca7baf1720a319fbea2b6d8ea01ab27a
Make TASKSTATS require root access

commit 1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 upstream.

Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin
capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more.  But at the
same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read
anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level.

Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative
to checking the capabilities by hand.

Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
kernel/taskstats.c