[PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace

Allow taint flags to be set from userspace by writing to
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted, and add a new taint flag, TAINT_USER, to be used
when userspace has potentially done something dangerous that might
compromise the kernel.  This will allow support personnel to ask further
questions about what may have caused the user taint flag to have been set.

For example, they might examine the logs of the realtime JVM to see if the
Java program has used the really silly, stupid, dangerous, and
completely-non-portable direct access to physical memory feature which MUST
be implemented according to the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ).
Sigh.  What were those silly people at Sun thinking?

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 16ef870fa75a..7733ef58aaca 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ static int sysctl_ipc_data(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
 static int proc_do_cad_pid(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
 		  void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
+static int proc_dointvec_taint(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
+			       void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
 #endif
 
 static ctl_table root_table[];
@@ -174,6 +176,7 @@ extern ctl_table inotify_table[];
 int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
 #endif
 
+
 static void *get_uts(ctl_table *table, int write)
 {
 	char *which = table->data;
@@ -344,14 +347,16 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_dostring,
 		.strategy	= &sysctl_string,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= KERN_TAINTED,
 		.procname	= "tainted",
 		.data		= &tainted,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
-		.mode		= 0444,
-		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_taint,
 	},
+#endif
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= KERN_CAP_BSET,
 		.procname	= "cap-bound",
@@ -1927,6 +1932,7 @@ int proc_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
 
 #define OP_SET	0
 #define OP_AND	1
+#define OP_OR	2
 
 static int do_proc_dointvec_bset_conv(int *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
 				      int *valp,
@@ -1938,6 +1944,7 @@ static int do_proc_dointvec_bset_conv(int *negp, unsigned long *lvalp,
 		switch(op) {
 		case OP_SET:	*valp = val; break;
 		case OP_AND:	*valp &= val; break;
+		case OP_OR:	*valp |= val; break;
 		}
 	} else {
 		int val = *valp;
@@ -1970,6 +1977,22 @@ int proc_dointvec_bset(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
 				do_proc_dointvec_bset_conv,&op);
 }
 
+/*
+ *	Taint values can only be increased
+ */
+static int proc_dointvec_taint(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
+			       void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int op;
+
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return -EPERM;
+
+	op = OP_OR;
+	return do_proc_dointvec(table,write,filp,buffer,lenp,ppos,
+				do_proc_dointvec_bset_conv,&op);
+}
+
 struct do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv_param {
 	int *min;
 	int *max;