From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120411231042.946594604@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:11:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Phillip Lougher , Kees Cook , Serge Hallyn , Richard Weinberger , James Morris Subject: [ 44/59] sysctl: fix write access to dmesg_restrict/kptr_restrict In-Reply-To: <20120411231213.GA13124@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Kees Cook commit 620f6e8e855d6d447688a5f67a4e176944a084e8 upstream. Commit bfdc0b4 adds code to restrict access to dmesg_restrict, however, it incorrectly alters kptr_restrict rather than dmesg_restrict. The original patch from Richard Weinberger (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/14/362) alters dmesg_restrict as expected, and so the patch seems to have been misapplied. This adds the CAP_SYS_ADMIN check to both dmesg_restrict and kptr_restrict, since both are sensitive. Reported-by: Phillip Lougher Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int proc_taint(struct ctl_table * #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK -static int proc_dmesg_restrict(struct ctl_table *table, int write, +static int proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); #endif @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &dmesg_restrict, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin, .extra1 = &zero, .extra2 = &one, }, @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &kptr_restrict, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dmesg_restrict, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin, .extra1 = &zero, .extra2 = &two, }, @@ -2422,7 +2422,7 @@ static int proc_taint(struct ctl_table * } #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK -static int proc_dmesg_restrict(struct ctl_table *table, int write, +static int proc_dointvec_minmax_sysadmin(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))