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authorChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2011-02-14 17:21:49 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-02-24 14:54:29 -0800
commitba5e8f48f799e61d865adb2830bb78fce3267762 (patch)
tree981abf78d80bf77e038a98a2776513856368b7cc /drivers
parent50194161bee65819784a08b5b7d4f2a2320ed8c2 (diff)
pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read
commit a628e7b87e100befac9702aa0c3b9848a7685e49 upstream. This reintroduces commit 47970b1b which was subsequently reverted as f00eaeea. The original change was broken and caused X startup failures and generally made privileged processes incapable of reading device dependent config space. The normal capable() interface returns true on success, but the LSM interface returns 0 on success. This thinko is now fixed in this patch, and has been confirmed to work properly. So, once again...Eric Paris noted that commit de139a3 ("pci: check caps from sysfs file open to read device dependent config space") caused the capability check to bypass security modules and potentially auditing. Rectify this by calling security_capable() when checking the open file's capabilities for config space reads. Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index 63d5042f207..1539d2c7b45 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/pci-aspm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "pci.h"
@@ -368,7 +369,7 @@ pci_read_config(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
u8 *data = (u8*) buf;
/* Several chips lock up trying to read undefined config space */
- if (cap_raised(filp->f_cred->cap_effective, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ if (security_capable(filp->f_cred, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) == 0) {
size = dev->cfg_size;
} else if (dev->hdr_type == PCI_HEADER_TYPE_CARDBUS) {
size = 128;