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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] devcgroup: fix odd behaviour when writing 'a' to devices.allow
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:54:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486DBB07.5050104@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)

 # cat /devcg/devices.list
 a *:* rwm
 # echo a > devices.allow
 # cat /devcg/devices.list
 a *:* rwm
 a 0:0 rwm

This is odd and maybe confusing. With this patch, writing 'a'
to devices.allow will add 'a *:* rwm' to the whitelist.

Also a few fixes and updates to the document.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/controllers/devices.txt |    8 ++++++--
 security/device_cgroup.c              |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
index 4dcea42..7cc6e6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/controllers/devices.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
 The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child device
 cgroup gets a copy of the parent.  Administrators can then remove
 devices from the whitelist or add new entries.  A child cgroup can
-never receive a device access which is denied its parent.  However
+never receive a device access which is denied by its parent.  However
 when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be
 removed from the child(ren).
 
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
 
 	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny
 
-will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.
+will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing
+
+	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow
+
+will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist.
 
 3. Security
 
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index baf3488..fd764a0 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ static ssize_t devcgroup_access_write(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct cftype *cft,
 	case 'a':
 		wh.type = DEV_ALL;
 		wh.access = ACC_MASK;
+		wh.major = ~0;
+		wh.minor = ~0;
 		goto handle;
 	case 'b':
 		wh.type = DEV_BLOCK;
-- 
1.5.4.rc3

             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04  5:54 Li Zefan [this message]
2008-07-07 17:25 ` [PATCH] devcgroup: fix odd behaviour when writing 'a' to devices.allow Serge E. Hallyn

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