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authorChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>2010-11-22 08:47:43 +0000
committerChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>2010-11-22 08:47:43 +0000
commit4ab0fbd3a29067e1540f05093ae4ed07645d18c8 (patch)
tree7f027e92e4578e293b20ac1f2c389600a795ea7f /kernel/printk.c
parentf3c91c1deaf8493526d8216be94c33e963f00962 (diff)
parent3561d43fd289f590fdae672e5eb831b8d5cf0bf6 (diff)
Merge remote branch 'linus' into drm-intel-fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 38e7d5868d6..9a2264fc42c 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -274,7 +274,20 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file)
char c;
int error = 0;
- error = security_syslog(type, from_file);
+ /*
+ * If this is from /proc/kmsg we only do the capabilities checks
+ * at open time.
+ */
+ if (type == SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN || !from_file) {
+ if (dmesg_restrict && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+ if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL &&
+ type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) &&
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+
+ error = security_syslog(type);
if (error)
return error;