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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>2009-01-07 18:07:46 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-18 10:43:47 -0800
commitfc83e93dc48f21cf8cce17586f7cc5e2b9c88d58 (patch)
treeed758cdafc1d988633c596be61692e4abc132018 /security
parente268dcdd404f4558cdd24c8ecede3e064df8fa33 (diff)
devices cgroup: allow mkfifo
commit 0b82ac37b889ec881b645860da3775118effb3ca upstream. The devcgroup_inode_permission() hook in the devices whitelist cgroup has always bypassed access checks on fifos. But the mknod hook did not. The devices whitelist is only about block and char devices, and fifos can't even be added to the whitelist, so fifos can't be created at all except by tasks which have 'a' in their whitelist (meaning they have access to all devices). Fix the behavior by bypassing access checks to mkfifo. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/device_cgroup.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index 5ba78701adc..df9d491e36f 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -513,6 +513,9 @@ int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup;
struct dev_whitelist_item *wh;
+ if (!S_ISBLK(mode) && !S_ISCHR(mode))
+ return 0;
+
rcu_read_lock();
dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);