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From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Vasily Averin <vvs@odin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk/printk.c: check_syslog_permissions() cleanup
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:09:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5561F7BF.7020704@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150514150154.dbfb8ab275aa30d0fe93172b@linux-foundation.org>

On 15.05.2015 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2015 09:35:53 +0300 Vasily Averin <vvs@odin.com> wrote:
>> --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
>> @@ -484,11 +484,11 @@ int check_syslog_permissions(int type, bool from_file)
>>  	 * already done the capabilities checks at open time.
>>  	 */
>>  	if (from_file && type != SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN)
>> -		return 0;
>> +		goto ok;
> 
> This seems wrong - we should only call security_syslog() for opens?

No I think my version is correct.
Currently security hook _is_ called in this situation:
from_file is set in /proc/kmsg handlers only, 
they use do_syslog() and call security_syslog() directly
after check_syslog_permissions() call.

My patch forces check_syslog_permissions() to call security hook in all cases,
that allows to remove extra security_syslog() call from do_syslog().

I've changed patch comment and going to resend new patch version soon.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-24 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-10  6:35 [PATCH] kernel/printk/printk.c: check_syslog_permissions() cleanup Vasily Averin
2015-05-14 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-15  7:41   ` Vasily Averin
2015-05-15  9:22     ` Vasily Averin
2015-05-24 16:09   ` Vasily Averin [this message]
2015-05-24 16:18   ` [PATCH v2] security_syslog() should be called once only Vasily Averin
2015-05-27 23:43     ` Andrew Morton
2015-05-30 13:51       ` Vasily Averin
2015-06-01 21:23         ` Andrew Morton
2015-06-02  7:57           ` Vasily Averin
2015-05-30 13:51       ` [PATCH] check_syslog_permissions() cleanup Vasily Averin
2015-06-04 17:00       ` [PATCH v2] security_syslog() should be called once only Kees Cook

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