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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2010-09-30 15:15:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-01 10:50:59 -0700
commit3036e7b490bf7878c6dae952eec5fb87b1106589 (patch)
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parentf015ac3edd84ad72f88e08a4d83c56c360aae404 (diff)
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proc: make /proc/pid/limits world readable
Having the limits file world readable will ease the task of system management on systems where root privileges might be restricted. Having admin restricted with root priviledges, he/she could not check other users process' limits. Also it'd align with most of the /proc stat files. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index a1c43e7c8a7b..8e4addaa5424 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2675,7 +2675,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = {
INF("auxv", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_auxv),
ONE("status", S_IRUGO, proc_pid_status),
ONE("personality", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_personality),
- INF("limits", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_limits),
+ INF("limits", S_IRUGO, proc_pid_limits),
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
REG("sched", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_pid_sched_operations),
#endif
@@ -3011,7 +3011,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
INF("auxv", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_auxv),
ONE("status", S_IRUGO, proc_pid_status),
ONE("personality", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_personality),
- INF("limits", S_IRUSR, proc_pid_limits),
+ INF("limits", S_IRUGO, proc_pid_limits),
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
REG("sched", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_pid_sched_operations),
#endif