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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 /Documentation
parent45acb8db06bad529f0feaf89465ce33152640089 (diff)
downloadlinux-3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7.tar.xz
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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt7
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index f566ad9bcb7b..63ed861d5ca1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1332,13 +1332,6 @@ determine whether or not they are still functioning properly.
Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI
watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
-maps_protect
-------------
-
-Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and
-"smaps". When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
-readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
-
msgmni
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