[PATCH 0/2] fs: set root dir perms

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/22/2011 11:28 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> With the continuing deluge of bugs in the "debug" filesystem, I would
> like to make that filesystem's root directory mode 0700 by default since
> it's filled with crazy stuff that regular users do not need to see.
>
> Better to try to just close the door completely on all the stuff in there.
> It is, after all, supposed to only be used for debugging, right?
>
>

On the surface this doesn't look too bad. However, I'd kind of like to 
let it cook upstream for awhile. Your email on LKML has a fairly wide 
distribution, so the responses ought to be interesting.

rtg
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