The following reply was made to PR kern/35226; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
To: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35226: Problems with permissions in /usr/pkg/emul/linux/proc .
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:12:25 +0200

 Nicolas Joly wrote:
 
 > Same here, on -current.
 > 
 > njoly@cixy [~]> uname -a
 > NetBSD cixy.dial.pasteur.fr 4.99.5 NetBSD 4.99.5 (CIXY) #39: Sat Dec  9 18:11:44 CET 2006  njoly@cixy.dial.pasteur.fr:/local/src/NetBSD/obj/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/CIXY i386
 > njoly@cixy [~]> cat /emul/linux/proc/cpuinfo 
 > cat: /emul/linux/proc/cpuinfo: Operation not permitted
 > 
 > I tracked down to `procfs_rw()' (sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_subr.c)
 > where 'kauth_authorize_process()' call return a non-zero value.
 
 that's a known issue that I already have a fix for. I'm not sure what
 kind of semantics we want to have in procfs (ie., exclude cpuinfo from
 the kauth check, or do that depending on uio_rw, or put it in the
 secmodel) so I'm holding it for now.
 
 -e.