From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D696B005C for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:48:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:48:22 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Patch] proc: drop write permission on 'timer_list' and 'slabinfo' Message-ID: <20090817094822.GA17838@elte.hu> References: <20090817094525.6355.88682.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090817094525.6355.88682.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Amerigo Wang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Vegard Nossum , Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu , Thomas Gleixner , linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Matt Mackall , Arjan van de Ven List-ID: * Amerigo Wang wrote: > /proc/timer_list and /proc/slabinfo are not supposed to be > written, so there should be no write permissions on it. good catch! > --- a/kernel/time/timer_list.c > +++ b/kernel/time/timer_list.c I have applied the timer_list bits to the timer tree. The SLUB/SLAB bits should go into the SLAB tree i guess. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org