From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3CD29000BD for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:47:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/meminfo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20110927175453.GA3393@albatros> <20110927175642.GA3432@albatros> <20110927193810.GA5416@albatros> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Kees Cook , Dave Hansen , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, David Rientjes wrote: > It'll turn into another one of our infinite number of capabilities. Does > anything actually care about statistics at KB granularity these days? Changing that to MB may also break things. It may be better to have consistent system for access control to memory management counters that are not related to a process. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org