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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +0200 |
| commit | 68083e05d72d94f347293d8cc0067050ba904bfa (patch) | |
| tree | 842e71365bd90866be7add181661a4039d891564 /Documentation/controllers/devices.txt | |
| parent | 7baac8b91f9871ba8cb09af84de4ae1d86d07812 (diff) | |
| parent | b7279469d66b55119784b8b9529c99c1955fe747 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096
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diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt index 4dcea42..7cc6e6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ either an integer or * for all. Access is a composition of r The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'. A child device cgroup gets a copy of the parent. Administrators can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new entries. A child cgroup can -never receive a device access which is denied its parent. However +never receive a device access which is denied by its parent. However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be removed from the child(ren). @@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny -will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry. +will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing + + echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow + +will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist. 3. Security |
