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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-04-04 11:40:19 -0700
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2012-04-05 14:51:43 +1000
commit620f6e8e855d6d447688a5f67a4e176944a084e8 (patch)
tree2be8f032eefc0d3bdaf9a045bd9263da4a2c6823 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent6c216ec636f75d834461be15f83ec41a6759bd2b (diff)
downloadlinux-620f6e8e855d6d447688a5f67a4e176944a084e8.tar.bz2
sysctl: fix write access to dmesg_restrict/kptr_restrict
Commit bfdc0b4 adds code to restrict access to dmesg_restrict, however, it incorrectly alters kptr_restrict rather than dmesg_restrict. The original patch from Richard Weinberger (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/14/362) alters dmesg_restrict as expected, and so the patch seems to have been misapplied. This adds the CAP_SYS_ADMIN check to both dmesg_restrict and kptr_restrict, since both are sensitive. Reported-by: Phillip Lougher <plougher@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 52b3a06a02f8..4ab11879aeb4 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static int proc_taint(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
-static int proc_dmesg_restrict(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+static int proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
#endif
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.data = &dmesg_restrict,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &one,
},
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.data = &kptr_restrict,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dmesg_restrict,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &two,
},
@@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ static int proc_taint(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
-static int proc_dmesg_restrict(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+static int proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))