Re: [stable] [27/37] tehuti: move ioctl perm check closer to function start (CVE-2008-1675)

Greg KH
2008-04-30T16:54:18Z

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Greg KH wrote:
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> > Hm, that's the way it is in Linus's tree, we should change it there
> > first.
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> Done. It will be commit 6203554207728f43cfb9fd48585cd6500da73d42 when I
> push out (but please point to the original commit that actually adds the
> check: 6203554 just changes from CAP_NET_ADMIN to CAP_SYS_RAWIO and is not
> as important as adding the check in the first place.

Thanks, I'll add this to the queue for 2.6.25-stable as well.

greg k-h