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 0D3159000BD for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:12:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:11:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/meminfo In-Reply-To: <30918.1317257024@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: References: <20110927175453.GA3393@albatros> <20110927175642.GA3432@albatros> <20110927193810.GA5416@albatros> <1317241905.16137.516.camel@nimitz> <30918.1317257024@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Dave Hansen , David Rientjes , Vasiliy Kulikov , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Kees Cook , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > We could also give the imprecise numbers to unprivileged > > users and let privileged ones see the page-level ones. > > That also sounds like a good idea. Uhh... Another source of confusions for the uninitiated. -- 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