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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:50:45 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:39:41 +0200 Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> wrote:

> The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading
> of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a
> write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>

there's no patch here.

And I'd be interested to see it, because Ted's patch converted it from 0444
to 0644, which sounds right.