Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:43:42 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: expand use of proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin |
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 07:20:17PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Yep. That is about the size of it. file * used to be passed to the > sysctl methods but it was removed several years ago because no one was > using it.
Generally cred would be better... Alternatively we could eat one more pointer in task_struct and stash a reference to that sucker there, rather than adding an explicit argument (again, with cred instead of file). Not sure...
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