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    sysctl: enable strict writes · 41662f5c
    Kees Cook authored Jan 20, 2016
    SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2 ("sysctl: allow for
    strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of
    2014.  Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset
    writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2].  As such, it
    appears safe to flip this to the strict state now.
    
    [1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200"
    [2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    41662f5c
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