> Should this not also have a capability check. Assuming file permissions > are sufficient for grabbing a chunk of system memory holding error > info doesn't seem too scary but it's at odds with a lot of other cases ?
At least one of those other cases (pstore) added a capability check and now regret it. There's a thread on reverting it. Look for: Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps" -Tony
