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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/meminfo
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:31:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317241905.16137.516.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1109271546320.13797@router.home>

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 15:47 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
> > It'll turn into another one of our infinite number of capabilities.  Does
> > anything actually care about statistics at KB granularity these days?
> 
> Changing that to MB may also break things. It may be better to have
> consistent system for access control to memory management counters that
> are not related to a process.

We could also just _effectively_ make it output in MB:

	foo = foo & ~(1<<20)

or align-up.  We could also give the imprecise numbers to unprivileged
users and let privileged ones see the page-level ones.

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 17:54 [PATCH 1/2] mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-27 17:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/meminfo Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-27 18:27   ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 19:14     ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-27 19:38   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-27 20:03     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-09-27 20:33       ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 20:47         ` Christoph Lameter
2011-09-28 20:31           ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2011-09-28 20:52             ` Alan Cox
2011-09-29  0:43             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-29 14:11               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-09-29 16:18         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-29 16:30           ` Dave Hansen
2011-09-29 16:43             ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-29 16:57           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-29 17:25             ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-29 17:28           ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-28 21:46     ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-30 19:53       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-30 20:03         ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-30 20:12           ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-30 20:15           ` Dave Hansen
2011-09-27 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs Christoph Lameter
2011-09-27 19:16   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-09-27 19:35     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-09-27 18:21 ` David Rientjes
2011-09-27 20:00   ` Pekka Enberg

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