Commit 0b82ac37 authored Jan 07, 2009 by Serge E. Hallyn Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 08, 2009

devices cgroup: allow mkfifo



The devcgroup_inode_permission() hook in the devices whitelist cgroup has
always bypassed access checks on fifos.  But the mknod hook did not.  The
devices whitelist is only about block and char devices, and fifos can't
even be added to the whitelist, so fifos can't be created at all except by
tasks which have 'a' in their whitelist (meaning they have access to all
devices).

Fix the behavior by bypassing access checks to mkfifo.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 116e0575

security/device_cgroup.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -513,6 +513,9 @@ int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
		struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup;
		struct dev_whitelist_item *wh;

		if (!S_ISBLK(mode) && !S_ISCHR(mode))
		return 0;

		rcu_read_lock();

		dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);

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