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Linus Torvalds 277642dcca modules: make sysfs attribute files readable by owner only
This code goes back to the historical bitkeeper tree commit 3f7b0672086
("Module section offsets in /sys/module"), where Jonathan Corbet wanted
to show people how to debug loadable modules.

See

    https://lwn.net/Articles/88052/

from June 2004.

To expose the required load address information, Jonathan added the
sections subdirectory for every module in /sys/modules, and made them
S_IRUGO - readable by everybody.

It was a more innocent time, plus those S_IRxxx macro names are a lot
more confusing than the octal numbers are, so maybe it wasn't even
intentional.  But here we are, thirteen years later, and I'll just change
it to S_IRUSR instead.

Let's see if anybody even notices.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-12 17:00:53 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-12 10:12:41 -08:00
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certs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-06 09:05:03 -08:00
Documentation Documentation: enforcement-statement: name updates 2017-11-05 10:21:06 -08:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-11-11 09:10:39 -08:00
firmware
fs fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c: fix hwpoison reserve accounting 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
include vmware and i915 fixes 2017-11-10 09:59:41 -08:00
init License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
ipc
kernel modules: make sysfs attribute files readable by owner only 2017-11-12 17:00:53 -08:00
lib KEYS: fix NULL pointer dereference during ASN.1 parsing [ver #2] 2017-11-09 00:38:21 +11:00
mm mm, swap: fix race between swap count continuation operations 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
net vlan: fix a use-after-free in vlan_device_event() 2017-11-11 19:35:32 +09:00
samples License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
scripts modpost: detect modules without a MODULE_LICENSE 2017-11-12 13:47:40 -08:00
security apparmor: fix off-by-one comparison on MAXMAPPED_SIG 2017-11-08 10:56:22 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 4.14 2017-11-09 09:58:11 -08:00
tools tooling/headers: Sync the tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h UAPI header 2017-11-11 09:08:43 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Fixes for interrupt controller emulation in ARM/ARM64 and x86, plus a one-liner 2017-11-04 11:44:55 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14 2017-11-12 10:46:13 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.