commit
a1480dcc3c706e309a88884723446f2e84fedd5b upstream.
Accessing do_remount_sb should require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but
only one of the two call sites was appropriately protected.
Fixes CVE-2014-7975.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Special case for "unmounting" root ...
* we just try to remount it readonly.
*/
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
down_write(&sb->s_umount);
if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
retval = do_remount_sb(sb, MS_RDONLY, NULL, 0);