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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2011-03-14 14:15:13 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2011-03-14 14:15:13 +1000
commit34db18abd376b2075c760c38f0b861aed379415d (patch)
treec4174e39a2f445f17c25ab206d45c66217bbbf85 /kernel/printk.c
parente73f88af66fcc50083fae4b7e1c39b469179a97a (diff)
parent47ae63e0c2e5fdb582d471dc906eb29be94c732f (diff)
Merge remote branch 'intel/drm-intel-next' of ../drm-next into drm-core-next
* 'intel/drm-intel-next' of ../drm-next: (755 commits) drm/i915: Only wait on a pending flip if we intend to write to the buffer drm/i915/dp: Sanity check eDP existence drm/i915: Rebind the buffer if its alignment constraints changes with tiling drm/i915: Disable GPU semaphores by default drm/i915: Do not overflow the MMADDR write FIFO Revert "drm/i915: fix corruptions on i8xx due to relaxed fencing" drm/i915: Don't save/restore hardware status page address register drm/i915: don't store the reg value for HWS_PGA drm/i915: fix memory corruption with GM965 and >4GB RAM Linux 2.6.38-rc7 Revert "TPM: Long default timeout fix" drm/i915: Re-enable GPU semaphores for SandyBridge mobile drm/i915: Replace vblank PM QoS with "Interrupt-Based AGPBUSY#" Revert "drm/i915: Use PM QoS to prevent C-State starvation of gen3 GPU" drm/i915: Allow relocation deltas outside of target bo drm/i915: Silence an innocuous compiler warning for an unused variable fs/block_dev.c: fix new kernel-doc warning ACPI: Fix build for CONFIG_NET unset mm: <asm-generic/pgtable.h> must include <linux/mm_types.h> x86: Use u32 instead of long to set reset vector back to 0 ... Conflicts: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c54
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 2ddbdc73aad..36231525e22 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -262,25 +262,47 @@ int dmesg_restrict = 1;
int dmesg_restrict;
#endif
+static int syslog_action_restricted(int type)
+{
+ if (dmesg_restrict)
+ return 1;
+ /* Unless restricted, we allow "read all" and "get buffer size" for everybody */
+ return type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL && type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER;
+}
+
+static int check_syslog_permissions(int type, bool from_file)
+{
+ /*
+ * If this is from /proc/kmsg and we've already opened it, then we've
+ * already done the capabilities checks at open time.
+ */
+ if (from_file && type != SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (syslog_action_restricted(type)) {
+ if (capable(CAP_SYSLOG))
+ return 0;
+ /* For historical reasons, accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN too, with a warning */
+ if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ WARN_ONCE(1, "Attempt to access syslog with CAP_SYS_ADMIN "
+ "but no CAP_SYSLOG (deprecated).\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file)
{
unsigned i, j, limit, count;
int do_clear = 0;
char c;
- int error = 0;
+ int error;
- /*
- * If this is from /proc/kmsg we only do the capabilities checks
- * at open time.
- */
- if (type == SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN || !from_file) {
- if (dmesg_restrict && !capable(CAP_SYSLOG))
- goto warn; /* switch to return -EPERM after 2.6.39 */
- if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL &&
- type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) &&
- !capable(CAP_SYSLOG))
- goto warn; /* switch to return -EPERM after 2.6.39 */
- }
+ error = check_syslog_permissions(type, from_file);
+ if (error)
+ goto out;
error = security_syslog(type);
if (error)
@@ -423,12 +445,6 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file)
}
out:
return error;
-warn:
- /* remove after 2.6.39 */
- if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- WARN_ONCE(1, "Attempt to access syslog with CAP_SYS_ADMIN "
- "but no CAP_SYSLOG (deprecated and denied).\n");
- return -EPERM;
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(syslog, int, type, char __user *, buf, int, len)