From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Vitaly Kuznetsov , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Sumit Semwal Subject: [PATCH 4.4 22/28] Tools: hv: kvp: ensure kvp device fd is closed on exec Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:08:53 +0100 Message-Id: <20170425150815.857049034@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170425150814.719042460@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170425150814.719042460@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vitaly Kuznetsov commit 26840437cbd6d3625ea6ab34e17cd34bb810c861 upstream. KVP daemon does fork()/exec() (with popen()) so we need to close our fds to avoid sharing them with child processes. The immediate implication of not doing so I see is SELinux complaining about 'ip' trying to access '/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp'. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) openlog("KVP", 0, LOG_USER); syslog(LOG_INFO, "KVP starting; pid is:%d", getpid()); - kvp_fd = open("/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp", O_RDWR); + kvp_fd = open("/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); if (kvp_fd < 0) { syslog(LOG_ERR, "open /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp failed; error: %d %s",