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device_cgroup: add proper checking when changing default behavior 

Before changing a group's default behavior to ALLOW, we must check if
its parent's behavior is also ALLOW.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Aristeu Rozanski 2012-10-25 13:37:45 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 26fd8405dd
commit 4cef7299b4
1 changed files with 18 additions and 1 deletions
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security/device_cgroup.c
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@ -344,6 +344,17 @@ static int parent_has_perm(struct dev_cgroup *childcg,
return may_access(parent, ex);
}
/**
* may_allow_all - checks if it's possible to change the behavior to
* allow based on parent's rules.
* @parent: device cgroup's parent
* returns: != 0 in case it's allowed, 0 otherwise
*/
static inline int may_allow_all(struct dev_cgroup *parent)
{
return parent->behavior == DEVCG_DEFAULT_ALLOW;
}
/*
* Modify the exception list using allow/deny rules.
* CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed for this. It's at least separate from CAP_MKNOD
@ -364,6 +375,8 @@ static int devcgroup_update_access(struct dev_cgroup *devcgroup,
char temp[12]; /* 11 + 1 characters needed for a u32 */
int count, rc;
struct dev_exception_item ex;
struct cgroup *p = devcgroup->css.cgroup;
struct dev_cgroup *parent = cgroup_to_devcgroup(p->parent);
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
@ -375,9 +388,13 @@ static int devcgroup_update_access(struct dev_cgroup *devcgroup,
case 'a':
switch (filetype) {
case DEVCG_ALLOW:
if (!parent_has_perm(devcgroup, &ex))
if (!may_allow_all(parent))
return -EPERM;
dev_exception_clean(devcgroup);
rc = dev_exceptions_copy(&devcgroup->exceptions,
&parent->exceptions);
if (rc)
return rc;
devcgroup->behavior = DEVCG_DEFAULT_ALLOW;
break;
case DEVCG_DENY: