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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-12-11 18:00:43 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-19 12:59:45 +0100
commit377e7a27c049d6df9c1804454904e438ed12f1a4 (patch)
tree4d954cde851170e98fea196869de609815306410 /security/keys
parent6d2c5d6c46dd3d9924831efd6c913fdf4d484985 (diff)
downloadlinux-377e7a27c049d6df9c1804454904e438ed12f1a4.tar.bz2
Make static usermode helper binaries constant
There are a number of usermode helper binaries that are "hard coded" in the kernel today, so mark them as "const" to make it harder for someone to change where the variables point to. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/keys')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/request_key.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 43affcf10b22..9822e500d50d 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void umh_keys_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
/*
* Call a usermode helper with a specific session keyring.
*/
-static int call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
+static int call_usermodehelper_keys(const char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
struct key *session_keyring, int wait)
{
struct subprocess_info *info;
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,
const char *op,
void *aux)
{
+ static char const request_key[] = "/sbin/request-key";
const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
key_serial_t prkey, sskey;
struct key *key = cons->key, *authkey = cons->authkey, *keyring,
@@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,
/* set up the argument list */
i = 0;
- argv[i++] = "/sbin/request-key";
+ argv[i++] = (char *)request_key;
argv[i++] = (char *) op;
argv[i++] = key_str;
argv[i++] = uid_str;
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons,
argv[i] = NULL;
/* do it */
- ret = call_usermodehelper_keys(argv[0], argv, envp, keyring,
+ ret = call_usermodehelper_keys(request_key, argv, envp, keyring,
UMH_WAIT_PROC);
kdebug("usermode -> 0x%x", ret);
if (ret >= 0) {