linux/drivers/md
Eric W. Biederman 38bf195398 connector/userns: replace netlink uses of cap_raised() with capable()
In 2009 Philip Reiser notied that a few users of netlink connector
interface needed a capability check and added the idiom
cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to a few of them, on the premise
that netlink was asynchronous.

In 2011 Patrick McHardy noticed we were being silly because netlink is
synchronous and removed eff_cap from the netlink_skb_params and changed
the idiom to cap_raised(current_cap(), CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

Looking at those spots with a fresh eye we should be calling
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN).  The only reason I can see for not calling capable
is that it once appeared we were not in the same task as the caller which
would have made calling capable() impossible.

In the initial user_namespace the only difference between between
cap_raised(current_cap(), CAP_SYS_ADMIN) and capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) are a
few sanity checks and the fact that capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) sets
PF_SUPERPRIV if we use the capability.

Since we are going to be using root privilege setting PF_SUPERPRIV seems
the right thing to do.

The motivation for this that patch is that in a child user namespace
cap_raised(current_cap(),...) tests your capabilities with respect to that
child user namespace not capabilities in the initial user namespace and
thus will allow processes that should be unprivielged to use the kernel
services that are only protected with cap_raised(current_cap(),..).

To fix possible user_namespace issues and to just clean up the code
replace cap_raised(current_cap(), CAP_SYS_ADMIN) with
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN).

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-10 23:21:39 -04:00
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persistent-data dm persistent data: remove space map ref_count entries if redundant 2012-03-28 18:41:27 +01:00
bitmap.c md/bitmap: prevent bitmap_daemon_work running while initialising bitmap 2012-04-12 16:05:06 +10:00
bitmap.h md/bitmap: discard CHUNK_BLOCK_SHIFT macro 2012-03-19 12:46:41 +11:00
dm-bio-record.h
dm-bufio.c dm bufio: prefetch 2012-03-28 18:41:29 +01:00
dm-bufio.h dm bufio: prefetch 2012-03-28 18:41:29 +01:00
dm-crypt.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-delay.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-exception-store.c dm exception store: fix init error path 2012-03-28 18:41:22 +01:00
dm-exception-store.h
dm-flakey.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-io.c dm io: fix discard support 2012-03-07 19:09:37 +00:00
dm-ioctl.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-kcopyd.c
dm-linear.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-log-userspace-base.c
dm-log-userspace-transfer.c connector/userns: replace netlink uses of cap_raised() with capable() 2012-05-10 23:21:39 -04:00
dm-log-userspace-transfer.h
dm-log.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-mpath.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-mpath.h
dm-path-selector.c
dm-path-selector.h
dm-queue-length.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-raid1.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-raid.c DM RAID: Use safe version of rdev_for_each 2012-04-24 10:23:13 +10:00
dm-region-hash.c
dm-round-robin.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-service-time.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-snap-persistent.c
dm-snap-transient.c
dm-snap.c
dm-stripe.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-sysfs.c
dm-table.c dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input 2012-03-28 18:41:26 +01:00
dm-target.c
dm-thin-metadata.c dm thin: relax hard limit on the maximum size of a metadata device 2012-03-28 18:41:28 +01:00
dm-thin-metadata.h dm thin: relax hard limit on the maximum size of a metadata device 2012-03-28 18:41:28 +01:00
dm-thin.c dm thin: add pool target flags to control discard 2012-03-28 18:41:29 +01:00
dm-uevent.c
dm-uevent.h
dm-verity.c dm: add verity target 2012-03-28 18:43:38 +01:00
dm-zero.c
dm.c dm: clear bi_end_io on remapping failure 2012-03-28 18:41:25 +01:00
dm.h
faulty.c md: tidy up rdev_for_each usage. 2012-03-19 12:46:39 +11:00
Kconfig dm: add verity target 2012-03-28 18:43:38 +01:00
linear.c md/linear: If md_integrity_register() fails, linear_run() must free the mem. 2012-04-02 09:48:37 +10:00
linear.h
Makefile dm: add verity target 2012-03-28 18:43:38 +01:00
md.c md: fix possible corruption of array metadata on shutdown. 2012-04-24 10:23:16 +10:00
md.h md/raid10: handle merge_bvec_fn in member devices. 2012-03-19 12:46:39 +11:00
multipath.c md: tidy up rdev_for_each usage. 2012-03-19 12:46:39 +11:00
multipath.h
raid0.c md: Avoid OOPS when reshaping raid1 to raid0 2012-04-03 15:37:26 +10:00
raid0.h md: add proper merge_bvec handling to RAID0 and Linear. 2012-03-19 12:46:39 +11:00
raid1.c md/raid1,raid10: Fix calculation of 'vcnt' when processing error recovery. 2012-04-12 16:04:47 +10:00
raid1.h
raid5.c md/raid5: Fix a bug about judging if the operation is syncing or replacing 2012-04-03 15:37:38 +10:00
raid5.h
raid10.c md/raid1,raid10: Fix calculation of 'vcnt' when processing error recovery. 2012-04-12 16:04:47 +10:00
raid10.h