bogon in 4.x memory device

From: Alfred Perlstein (bright@mu.org)
Date: 09/25/01 

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:07:01 -0500
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: alpha@freebsd.org

without this top(1) fails on machines with raised securelevel.

can anyone review/comment?

Reported by: brian j. peterson <rbw@myplace.org>

Index: mem.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/alpha/alpha/mem.c,v
retrieving revision 1.19.2.3
diff -u -r1.19.2.3 mem.c
--- mem.c 2000/05/14 00:29:44 1.19.2.3
+++ mem.c 2001/09/25 06:55:30
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
         switch (minor(dev)) {
         case 0:
         case 1:
- if (securelevel >= 1)
+ if ((flags & FWRITE) && securelevel > 0)
                         return (EPERM);
                 break;
         case 32: 

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