From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:45:03 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: [PATCH] LSM: add missing hook to do_compat_readv_writev()
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[PATCH] LSM: add missing hook to do_compat_readv_writev()

This patch addresses a flaw in LSM, where there is no mediation of readv()
and writev() in for 32-bit compatible apps using a 64-bit kernel.

This bug was discovered and fixed initially in the native readv/writev
code [1], but was not fixed in the compat code.  Thanks to Al for spotting
this one.

  [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/154282/

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 7f8e26ea427c..2e32bd340474 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1217,6 +1217,10 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out;
 
+	ret = security_file_permission(file, type == READ ? MAY_READ:MAY_WRITE);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
 	fnv = NULL;
 	if (type == READ) {
 		fn = file->f_op->read;