device_cgroup: add proper checking when changing default behavior
authorAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:37:45 +0000 (13:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:37:52 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
Before changing a group's default behavior to ALLOW, we must check if
its parent's behavior is also ALLOW.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
security/device_cgroup.c

index 4fbae8d0b36cd75290e0fc46a8e86633ca0d22db..842c254396dbe8ab2a54fd566b37d29ce6fd4d8b 100644 (file)
@@ -344,6 +344,17 @@ static int parent_has_perm(struct dev_cgroup *childcg,
        return may_access(parent, ex);
 }
 
+/**
+ * may_allow_all - checks if it's possible to change the behavior to
+ *                allow based on parent's rules.
+ * @parent: device cgroup's parent
+ * returns: != 0 in case it's allowed, 0 otherwise
+ */
+static inline int may_allow_all(struct dev_cgroup *parent)
+{
+       return parent->behavior == DEVCG_DEFAULT_ALLOW;
+}
+
 /*
  * Modify the exception list using allow/deny rules.
  * CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed for this.  It's at least separate from CAP_MKNOD
@@ -364,6 +375,8 @@ static int devcgroup_update_access(struct dev_cgroup *devcgroup,
        char temp[12];          /* 11 + 1 characters needed for a u32 */
        int count, rc;
        struct dev_exception_item ex;
+       struct cgroup *p = devcgroup->css.cgroup;
+       struct dev_cgroup *parent = cgroup_to_devcgroup(p->parent);
 
        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                return -EPERM;
@@ -375,9 +388,13 @@ static int devcgroup_update_access(struct dev_cgroup *devcgroup,
        case 'a':
                switch (filetype) {
                case DEVCG_ALLOW:
-                       if (!parent_has_perm(devcgroup, &ex))
+                       if (!may_allow_all(parent))
                                return -EPERM;
                        dev_exception_clean(devcgroup);
+                       rc = dev_exceptions_copy(&devcgroup->exceptions,
+                                                &parent->exceptions);
+                       if (rc)
+                               return rc;
                        devcgroup->behavior = DEVCG_DEFAULT_ALLOW;
                        break;
                case DEVCG_DENY: