From: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:41:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Allow reading tainted flag as user
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91fcd412e957f433e9f1abeb0b1926dbeb66ca80;p=pandora-kernel.git

Allow reading tainted flag as user

The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 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>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 1b255df4fcd0..c904748f2290 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -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;