Commit 52556d4b authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds Committed by Willy Tarreau
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Make TASKSTATS require root access



commit 1a51410a upstream.

Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin
capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more.  But at the
same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read
anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level.

Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative
to checking the capabilities by hand.

Reported-by: default avatarVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
parent 75016c6e
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