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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:54:58 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Oberheide <jon@...rheide.org>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
security@...nel.org, spender@...ecurity.net,
Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Security] Re: /proc infoleaks
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> We're not going to change the kernel defaults, end of story - that
> would break far too much stuff.
Hmm. I think the /proc/kallsyms one really is just plain broken. That
should not be world-readable, there's no reason for normal users
reading it.
But I don't see why slabinfo etc should care.
Linus
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