Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary)
I had planned to wait for 4.15 to look at the printk hashing stuff
etc, but this part I think I could/should merge early just because I
think a lot of kernel developers will go "Why the f*ck would we expose
that kernel address there?"
that kernel address there?"
The module sections stuff etc should likely be obviously root-only, although maybe I'm missing some tool that ends up using it and is useful to normal developers.
useful to normal developers.
And I'm thinking we could make kallsyms smarter too, and instead of depending on kptr_restrict that screws over things with much too big a hammer, we could make it take 'perf_event_paranoid' into account.
that kernel address there?"
The module sections stuff etc should likely be obviously root-only, although maybe I'm missing some tool that ends up using it and is useful to normal developers.
useful to normal developers.
And I'm thinking we could make kallsyms smarter too, and instead of depending on kptr_restrict that screws over things with much too big a hammer, we could make it take 'perf_event_paranoid' into account.