summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/security/commoncap.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'security/commoncap.c')
-rw-r--r--security/commoncap.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index f800fdb3de94..4e015996dd4d 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/prctl.h>
#include <linux/securebits.h>
+#include <linux/syslog.h>
/*
* If a non-root user executes a setuid-root binary in
@@ -569,7 +570,7 @@ int cap_inode_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
}
if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
- sizeof(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1) &&
+ sizeof(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1) &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
return 0;
@@ -595,7 +596,7 @@ int cap_inode_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name)
}
if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
- sizeof(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1) &&
+ sizeof(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1) &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
return 0;
@@ -888,13 +889,17 @@ error:
/**
* cap_syslog - Determine whether syslog function is permitted
* @type: Function requested
+ * @from_file: Whether this request came from an open file (i.e. /proc)
*
* Determine whether the current process is permitted to use a particular
* syslog function, returning 0 if permission is granted, -ve if not.
*/
-int cap_syslog(int type)
+int cap_syslog(int type, bool from_file)
{
- if ((type != 3 && type != 10) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (type != SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN && from_file)
+ return 0;
+ if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL &&
+ type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
return 0;
}
@@ -926,7 +931,7 @@ int cap_vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages)
* @addr: address attempting to be mapped
* @addr_only: unused
*
- * If the process is attempting to map memory below mmap_min_addr they need
+ * If the process is attempting to map memory below dac_mmap_min_addr they need
* CAP_SYS_RAWIO. The other parameters to this function are unused by the
* capability security module. Returns 0 if this mapping should be allowed
* -EPERM if not.