4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Vasily Averin <[email protected]> commit d194e5d666225b04c7754471df0948f645b6ab3a upstream. The final version of commit 637241a900cb ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg") lost few hooks, as result security_syslog() are processed incorrectly: - open of /dev/kmsg checks syslog access permissions by using check_syslog_permissions() where security_syslog() is not called if dmesg_restrict is set. - syslog syscall and /proc/kmsg calls do_syslog() where security_syslog can be executed twice (inside check_syslog_permissions() and then directly in do_syslog()) With this patch security_syslog() is called once only in all syslog-related operations regardless of dmesg_restrict value. Fixes: 637241a900cb ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Paris <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -484,11 +484,11 @@ int check_syslog_permissions(int type, b * already done the capabilities checks at open time. */ if (from_file && type != SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN) - return 0; + goto ok; if (syslog_action_restricted(type)) { if (capable(CAP_SYSLOG)) - return 0; + goto ok; /* * For historical reasons, accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN too, with * a warning. @@ -498,10 +498,11 @@ int check_syslog_permissions(int type, b "CAP_SYS_ADMIN but no CAP_SYSLOG " "(deprecated).\n", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current)); - return 0; + goto ok; } return -EPERM; } +ok: return security_syslog(type); } @@ -1263,10 +1264,6 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf if (error) goto out; - error = security_syslog(type); - if (error) - return error; - switch (type) { case SYSLOG_ACTION_CLOSE: /* Close log */ break; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
