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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 07:47:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 07:47:47 +0200 |
| commit | 93022136fff9e6130aa128a5ed8a599e93ac813c (patch) | |
| tree | 185390fb75a3d7423cc508610b76637c957205b9 /Documentation/controllers | |
| parent | c49c412a47b5102516d3313d4eba38cb1e968721 (diff) | |
| parent | b7279469d66b55119784b8b9529c99c1955fe747 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into x86/cpu
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 4dcea42432c..7cc6e6a6067 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 |