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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	George Wilson <gcwilson@us.ibm.com>,
	KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
Subject: Re: drop SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:26:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911191526.15345.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551280e50911190735u210e2c60xc944c333b122d22d@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 19 November 2009 10:35:12 am Andrew G. Morgan wrote:
> How about this change?
> 
> @@ -169,8 +169,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capget, cap_user_header_
>        kernel_cap_t pE, pI, pP;
> 
>        ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy);
> -       if (ret != 0)
> +       if ((ret != 0) || (dataptr == NULL)) {
> +               if ((ret == -EINVAL) && (dataptr == NULL))
> +                       return 0;
>                return ret;
> +       }
> 
>        if (get_user(pid, &header->pid))
>                return -EFAULT;
> 
> ? This is a slightly modified version of what you posted before.
> Specifically, in the case that the user guessed a compatible version
> this NULL call will succeed and not EFAULT.

Sure. Looks good to me.

Thanks,
-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-19 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 14:07 drop SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES? Serge E. Hallyn
2009-11-10 15:28 ` Steve Grubb
2009-11-10 15:53   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-11-10 17:51     ` Steve Grubb
2009-11-11  0:19       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-11-18 16:40         ` Andrew G. Morgan
2009-11-18 17:49           ` Steve Grubb
2009-11-18 18:36             ` Andrew G. Morgan
2009-11-18 19:33               ` Steve Grubb
2009-11-18 19:39                 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2009-11-19 15:35                 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2009-11-19 20:26                   ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2009-11-10 17:23 ` Kees Cook

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