From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: fs: Enable link security restrictions by default
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 05:32:06 +0000
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/609455
Forwarded: not-needed

This reverts commit 561ec64ae67ef25cac8d72bb9c4bfc955edfd415
('VFS: don't do protected {sym,hard}links by default').

--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1020,8 +1020,8 @@ static inline void put_link(struct namei
 		path_put(&last->link);
 }
 
-static int sysctl_protected_symlinks __read_mostly;
-static int sysctl_protected_hardlinks __read_mostly;
+static int sysctl_protected_symlinks __read_mostly = 1;
+static int sysctl_protected_hardlinks __read_mostly = 1;
 static int sysctl_protected_fifos __read_mostly;
 static int sysctl_protected_regular __read_mostly;