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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-04-04 11:40:19 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-13 08:33:49 -0700
commit7e2d1469b5835ce42794f5bb7d160cd3ca81673f (patch)
treecd6bc2d9da5a475aa3efcfe5df05832b73af8ce9 /kernel
parentaba6427f057d78fc9a5051d1b57f5c4798811b7c (diff)
sysctl: fix write access to dmesg_restrict/kptr_restrict
commit 620f6e8e855d6d447688a5f67a4e176944a084e8 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ae271964385..ea7ec7f197c 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ 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
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ 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,
},
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ 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,
},
@@ -2422,7 +2422,7 @@ 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))