Patch "security_syslog() should be called once only" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    security_syslog() should be called once only

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     security_syslog-should-be-called-once-only.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d194e5d666225b04c7754471df0948f645b6ab3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:01:44 -0700
Subject: security_syslog() should be called once only

From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>

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 <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.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@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/printk/printk.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -383,11 +383,11 @@ static int check_syslog_permissions(int
 	 * 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.
@@ -397,10 +397,11 @@ static int check_syslog_permissions(int
 				     "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);
 }
 
@@ -1126,10 +1127,6 @@ 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;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vvs@virtuozzo.com are

queue-3.14/security_syslog-should-be-called-once-only.patch