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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1109271431250.13797@router.home> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:35:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org> To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, Kees Cook <kees@...ntu.com>, Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 13:08 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Possible candidates: > > > > christoph@...y:~/n/linux-2.6$ grep proc_create mm/* > > mm/swapfile.c: proc_create("swaps", 0, NULL, &proc_swaps_operations); > > mm/vmstat.c: proc_create("buddyinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &fragmentation_file_operations); > > mm/vmstat.c: proc_create("pagetypeinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &pagetypeinfo_file_ops); > > mm/vmstat.c: proc_create("vmstat", S_IRUGO, NULL, &proc_vmstat_file_operations); > > mm/vmstat.c: proc_create("zoneinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &proc_zoneinfo_file_operations); > > > > vmstat and zoneinfo in particular give similar information to what is > > revealed through the slab proc files. > > Do you know whether these files are actively used? I don't want to > break tools like "free" or "top". In this case we'll have to discover > another way to limit this information. top uses per process information. Tried an strace and I see no access to vmstat or zoneinfo. free uses /proc/meminfo not vmstat or zoneinfo. Since you already have a patch that limits /proc/meminfo access there is already an issue there.
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