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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-10 03:27:16 +0400
committerAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-10 04:24:51 +0400
commit3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7 (patch)
tree057d3d2aa8cb68eff8c944378e86ba120eff9cf4 /kernel
parent45acb8db06bad529f0feaf89465ce33152640089 (diff)
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proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka "restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace" sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c11
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 50ec088..cc3e0d7 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
extern int compat_log;
-extern int maps_protect;
extern int latencytop_enabled;
extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
@@ -810,16 +809,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- {
- .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
- .procname = "maps_protect",
- .data = &maps_protect,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
- },
-#endif
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "poweroff_cmd",
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