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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:48:22 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] proc: drop write permission on 'timer_list' and
	'slabinfo'
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* Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:

> /proc/timer_list and /proc/slabinfo are not supposed to be 
> written, so there should be no write permissions on it.

good catch!

> --- a/kernel/time/timer_list.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timer_list.c

I have applied the timer_list bits to the timer tree. The SLUB/SLAB 
bits should go into the SLAB tree i guess.

Thanks,

	Ingo