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Linus Torvalds
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Pull procfs fixes from Christian Brauner: "Mode changes to files under /proc/<pid>/ aren't supported ever since commit6d76fa58b0("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc/<pid>/ files"). Due to an oversight in commit1b3044e39a("procfs: fix pthread cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE") in switching from REG to NOD, mode changes on /proc/thread-self/comm were accidently allowed. Similar, mode changes for all files beneath /proc/<pid>/net/ are blocked but mode changes on /proc/<pid>/net itself were accidently allowed. Both issues come down to not using the generic proc_setattr() helper which blocks all mode changes. This is rectified with this pull request. This also removes a strange nolibc test that abused /proc/<pid>/net for testing mode changes. Using procfs for this test never made a lot of sense given procfs has special semantics for almost everything anway. Both changes are minor user-visible changes. It is however very unlikely that mode changes on proc/<pid>/net and /proc/thread-self/comm are something that userspace relies on" * tag 'v6.6-fs.proc.uapi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: procfs: block chmod on /proc/thread-self/comm proc: use generic setattr() for /proc/$PID/net selftests/nolibc: drop test chmod_net
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