From 3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:27:16 +0400
Subject: proc: remove kernel.maps_protect

After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'fs/proc/base.c')

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index c1332dd2575d..b5918ae8ca79 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -148,9 +148,6 @@ static unsigned int pid_entry_count_dirs(const struct pid_entry *entries,
 	return count;
 }
 
-int maps_protect;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(maps_protect);
-
 static struct fs_struct *get_fs_struct(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	struct fs_struct *fs;
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