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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-10 03:27:16 +0400
committerAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-10-10 04:24:51 +0400
commit3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7 (patch)
tree057d3d2aa8cb68eff8c944378e86ba120eff9cf4 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent45acb8db06bad529f0feaf89465ce33152640089 (diff)
downloadlinux-3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c11
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 50ec0886fa3d..cc3e0d7a5acf 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
 extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
 extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
 extern int compat_log;
-extern int maps_protect;
 extern int latencytop_enabled;
 extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
@@ -810,16 +809,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
 	},
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
-	{
-		.ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
-		.procname       = "maps_protect",
-		.data           = &maps_protect,
-		.maxlen         = sizeof(int),
-		.mode           = 0644,
-		.proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
-	},
-#endif
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
 		.procname	= "poweroff_cmd",