Re: [PATCH] sysctl: fix restrict write access to dmesg_restrict

[Phillip Lougher]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Presumably someone else fiddled with the file, patch(1) misapplied the
> hunk and I didn't notice.
>

That was my guess, the repeated near identical sysfs entries is
confusing patch.  The stable kernels also suffer from this
misapplication, but the misapplication is random, for instance I
noticed here

http://www.mail-archive.com/stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07097.html

that the patch has been misapplied to suid_dumpable.  It looks like
all of the stable kernels need to be separately checked, and if
necessary different patches need to be generated.

> Send a fix?

My original email has the fix...

Phillip
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