proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
commit3bbfe0596746e1590888a6e1e6a07583265238b7
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:27:16 +0000 (10 03:27 +0400)
committerAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:24:51 +0000 (10 04:24 +0400)
tree057d3d2aa8cb68eff8c944378e86ba120eff9cf4
parent45acb8db06bad529f0feaf89465ce33152640089
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>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
fs/proc/base.c
fs/proc/internal.h
fs/proc/task_mmu.c
fs/proc/task_nommu.c
kernel/sysctl.c