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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-07-04 19:00:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-04 19:40:10 +0200 |
| commit | d823f6bfec2844493c05961133895de21fa0e02d (patch) | |
| tree | 853fac4a97ab842f9ee52adfbf72297e8b90688d /Documentation/controllers | |
| parent | Update MAINTAINERS file for the TPM device driver (diff) | |
| download | linux-d823f6bfec2844493c05961133895de21fa0e02d.tar.xz linux-d823f6bfec2844493c05961133895de21fa0e02d.zip | |
devcgroup: fix odd behaviour when writing 'a' to devices.allow
# cat /devcg/devices.list
a *:* rwm
# echo a > devices.allow
# cat /devcg/devices.list
a *:* rwm
a 0:0 rwm
This is odd and maybe confusing. With this patch, writing 'a' to
devices.allow will add 'a *:* rwm' to the whitelist.
Also a few fixes and updates to the document.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/controllers')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/controllers/devices.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt index 4dcea42432c2..7cc6e6a60672 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ either an integer or * for all. Access is a composition of r The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'. A child device cgroup gets a copy of the parent. Administrators can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new entries. A child cgroup can -never receive a device access which is denied its parent. However +never receive a device access which is denied by its parent. However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be removed from the child(ren). @@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny -will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry. +will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing + + echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow + +will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist. 3. Security |