From 91fcd412e957f433e9f1abeb0b1926dbeb66ca80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bastian Blank Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:41:14 -0700 Subject: Allow reading tainted flag as user The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions. Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 1b255df4fcd0..c904748f2290 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ static int proc_dointvec_taint(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, { int op; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; op = OP_OR; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b