Re: [PATCH] docs: threat-model: fix /dev/kmsg reference

Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.workflows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Johan Hovold <[email protected]> writes:

> Fix a '/dev/kmsg' reference which got replaced with '/proc/kmsg' (which
> is not accessible to regular users).
>
> Fixes: a03ef333fbd6 ("Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug")
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/threat-model.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/threat-model.rst b/Documentation/process/threat-model.rst
> index a68be888ce8e..04e5df6a6f78 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/threat-model.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/threat-model.rst
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ possibilities of user namespaces are not covered in this document.
>  The kernel also offers a lot of troubleshooting and debugging facilities, which
>  can constitute attack vectors when placed in wrong hands. While some of them
>  are designed to be accessible to regular local users with a low risk (e.g.
> -kernel logs via ``/proc/kmsg``), some would expose enough information to
> +kernel logs via ``/dev/kmsg``), some would expose enough information to
>  represent a risk in most places and the decision to expose them is under the

Applied, thanks.

jon
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