debugfs: more tightly restrict default mount mode
Since the debugfs is mostly only used by root, make the default mount
mode 0700. Most system owners do not need a more permissive value,
but they can choose to weaken the restrictions via their fstab.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 7a34f82..3a863f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
(Or an equivalent /etc/fstab line).
-The debugfs root directory is accessible by anyone by default. To
-restrict access to the tree the "uid", "gid" and "mode" mount
+The debugfs root directory is accessible only to the root user by
+default. To change access to the tree the "uid", "gid" and "mode" mount
options can be used.
Note that the debugfs API is exported GPL-only to modules.