linux-stable-rt/kernel
Linus Torvalds 33e0d57f5d Revert "kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking"
This reverts commit 59365d136d.

It turns out that this can break certain existing user land setups.
Quoth Sarah Sharp:

 "On Wednesday, I updated my branch to commit 460781b from linus' tree,
  and my box would not boot.  klogd segfaulted, which stalled the whole
  system.

  At first I thought it actually hung the box, but it continued booting
  after 5 minutes, and I was able to log in.  It dropped back to the
  text console instead of the graphical bootup display for that period
  of time.  dmesg surprisingly still works.  I've bisected the problem
  down to this commit (commit 59365d136d)

  The box is running klogd 1.5.5ubuntu3 (from Jaunty).  Yes, I know
  that's old.  I read the bit in the commit about changing the
  permissions of kallsyms after boot, but if I can't boot that doesn't
  help."

So let's just keep the old default, and encourage distributions to do
the "chmod -r /proc/kallsyms" in their bootup scripts.  This is not
worth a kernel option to change default behavior, since it's so easily
done in user space.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-19 11:54:40 -08:00
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debug kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceeded 2010-11-17 13:54:57 -06:00
gcov
irq Merge branches 'irq-core-for-linus' and 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-31 20:40:24 -04:00
power PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation 2010-11-11 01:51:26 +01:00
time
trace BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile
acct.c
async.c
audit.c audit: Use rcu for task lookup protection 2010-10-30 08:45:42 -04:00
audit.h audit: make functions static 2010-10-30 01:42:19 -04:00
audit_tree.c in untag_chunk() we need to do alloc_chunk() a bit earlier 2010-10-30 02:18:32 -04:00
audit_watch.c audit: make functions static 2010-10-30 01:42:19 -04:00
auditfilter.c Audit: add support to match lsm labels on user audit messages 2010-10-30 01:41:57 -04:00
auditsc.c audit mmap 2010-10-30 08:45:43 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c convert cgroup and cpuset 2010-10-29 04:17:06 -04:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state transitions 2010-10-27 18:03:08 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c convert cgroup and cpuset 2010-10-29 04:17:06 -04:00
cred.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec 2010-11-05 14:16:03 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list 2010-11-10 13:27:50 +01:00
futex_compat.c futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list 2010-11-10 13:27:50 +01:00
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optional 2010-10-29 12:56:13 -04:00
kallsyms.c Revert "kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking" 2010-11-19 11:54:40 -08:00
kexec.c use clear_page()/copy_page() in favor of memset()/memcpy() on whole pages 2010-10-26 16:52:13 -07:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c jump label: Fix error with preempt disable holding mutex 2010-10-29 12:55:55 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c latencytop: fix per task accumulator 2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
lockdep.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
module.c (trivial) Fix compiler warning in kernel/modules.c 2010-10-27 20:33:05 +10:30
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated 2010-10-27 18:03:09 -07:00
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
perf_event.c perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples 2010-11-10 22:58:39 +01:00
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
pm_qos_params.c PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max 2010-11-15 22:45:22 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to fix build failure 2010-11-15 15:40:01 -08:00
profile.c
ptrace.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
range.c kernel/range.c: fix clean_sort_range() for the case of full array 2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
rcupdate.c
rcutiny.c
rcutiny_plugin.h
rcutorture.c
rcutree.c
rcutree.h
rcutree_plugin.h
rcutree_trace.c
relay.c Clean up relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by using vzalloc rather than vmalloc and memset 2010-11-05 08:21:34 -07:00
res_counter.c
resource.c Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-10-28 11:59:52 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption 2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption 2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments 2010-10-24 13:29:01 +02:00
sched_stoptask.c sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption 2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: annotate lock context change on ptrace_stop() 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
smp.c Typedef SMP call function pointer 2010-10-27 17:28:36 +01:00
softirq.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-27 18:48:00 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
sys.c
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: Fix build failure with !CONFIG_PRINTK 2010-11-16 07:56:09 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl_check.c
taskstats.c taskstats: split fill_pid function 2010-10-27 18:03:17 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times 2010-10-27 18:03:17 -07:00
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel/user.c: add lock release annotation on free_user() 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
wait.c docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbook 2010-10-26 17:32:41 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Fix section mismatch and potential undefined behavior. 2010-11-05 17:45:35 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueues: s/ON_STACK/ONSTACK/ 2010-10-26 16:52:14 -07:00
workqueue_sched.h