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As pointed by recent post[1] on exploiting DRAM physical imperfection, /proc/PID/pagemap exposes sensitive information which can be used to do attacks. This disallows anybody without CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read the pagemap. [1] http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html [ Eventually we might want to do anything more finegrained, but for now this is the simple model. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Mark Seaborn <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>