devices cgroup: allow mkfifo
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:07:46 +0000 (18:07 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:31:03 +0000 (08:31 -0800)
commit0b82ac37b889ec881b645860da3775118effb3ca
tree93407311725ac2588df5f37e261304a51064e200
parent116e05751285c20edf5768ca3bcc00dad86181bb
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>
security/device_cgroup.c