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Allow reading tainted flag as user 

The commit 34f5a39899 restricted reading
of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a
write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bastian Blank 2007-04-23 14:41:14 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 94e22e13ad
commit 91fcd412e9
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@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ static int proc_dointvec_taint(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
{
int op;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
op = OP_OR;