From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 38/40] ide: remove ide_driver_proc_write
Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 08:09:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efiq2qqx.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425154827.32251-39-hch@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:48:25 +0200")
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> The driver proc file hasn't been writeable for a long time, so this is
> just dead code.
It is possible to chmod this file to get at the write method. Not that
I think anyone does.
It looks like this code was merged in 2.3.99-pre1 with permissions
S_IFREG|S_IRUGO so I don't think the write support was ever finished.
That cap_capable in the write method looks down right scary/buggy.
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Eric
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> drivers/ide/ide-proc.c | 46 ------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 46 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
> index 863db44c7916..b3b8b8822d6a 100644
> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
> @@ -528,58 +528,12 @@ static int ide_driver_proc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> return single_open(file, ide_driver_proc_show, PDE_DATA(inode));
> }
>
> -static int ide_replace_subdriver(ide_drive_t *drive, const char *driver)
> -{
> - struct device *dev = &drive->gendev;
> - int ret = 1;
> - int err;
> -
> - device_release_driver(dev);
> - /* FIXME: device can still be in use by previous driver */
> - strlcpy(drive->driver_req, driver, sizeof(drive->driver_req));
> - err = device_attach(dev);
> - if (err < 0)
> - printk(KERN_WARNING "IDE: %s: device_attach error: %d\n",
> - __func__, err);
> - drive->driver_req[0] = 0;
> - if (dev->driver == NULL) {
> - err = device_attach(dev);
> - if (err < 0)
> - printk(KERN_WARNING
> - "IDE: %s: device_attach(2) error: %d\n",
> - __func__, err);
> - }
> - if (dev->driver && !strcmp(dev->driver->name, driver))
> - ret = 0;
> -
> - return ret;
> -}
> -
> -static ssize_t ide_driver_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
> - size_t count, loff_t *pos)
> -{
> - ide_drive_t *drive = PDE_DATA(file_inode(file));
> - char name[32];
> -
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> - return -EACCES;
> - if (count > 31)
> - count = 31;
> - if (copy_from_user(name, buffer, count))
> - return -EFAULT;
> - name[count] = '\0';
> - if (ide_replace_subdriver(drive, name))
> - return -EINVAL;
> - return count;
> -}
> -
> static const struct file_operations ide_driver_proc_fops = {
> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> .open = ide_driver_proc_open,
> .read = seq_read,
> .llseek = seq_lseek,
> .release = single_release,
> - .write = ide_driver_proc_write,
> };
>
> static int ide_media_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 15:47 simplify procfs code for seq_file instances V2 Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 01/40] net/can: single_open_net needs to be paired with single_release_net Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 02/40] proc: simplify proc_register calling conventions Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 03/40] proc: add a proc_create_reg helper Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 04/40] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 05/40] proc: introduce proc_create_seq_private Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 06/40] proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26 1:45 ` Finn Thain
2018-05-15 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 07/40] ipv{4,6}/udp{,lite}: simplify proc registration Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 08/40] ipv{4,6}/tcp: simplify procfs registration Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 09/40] ipv{4,6}/ping: simplify proc file creation Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 10/40] ipv{4, 6}/raw: simplify ѕeq_file code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 11/40] ipv6/flowlabel: simplify pid namespace lookup Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-05 12:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-05-15 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-17 5:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-05-17 6:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-17 19:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-25 15:47 ` [PATCH 12/40] net/kcm: simplify proc registration Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 13/40] netfilter/x_tables: simplify ѕeq_file code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 14/40] net: move seq_file_single_net to <linux/seq_file_net.h> Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 15/40] proc: introduce proc_create_net{,_data} Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 16/40] proc: introduce proc_create_net_single Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 17/40] acpi/battery: simplify procfs code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 18/40] sgi-gru: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 19/40] megaraid: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 20/40] sg: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 21/40] afs: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-30 23:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] afs: Network-namespacing and proc David Howells
2018-04-30 23:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c David Howells
2018-05-15 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-30 23:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] proc: Add a way to make network proc files writable David Howells
2018-05-15 13:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-15 14:16 ` David Howells
2018-04-30 23:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] afs: Implement namespacing David Howells
2018-05-15 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-15 14:28 ` 'Adding' a writable proc file under /proc/net/afs/ [was [PATCH 3/3] afs: Implement namespacing] David Howells
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 22/40] ext4: simplify procfs code Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 23/40] jfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 24/40] staging/rtl8192u: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 25/40] resource: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 26/40] drbd: switch to proc_create_single Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 27/40] rtc/proc: switch to proc_create_single_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 18:25 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 28/40] bonding: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 29/40] hostap: switch to proc_create_{seq,single}_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 30/40] neigh: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 31/40] netfilter/xt_hashlimit: switch to proc_create_{seq, single}_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 32/40] netfilter/x_tables: switch to proc_create_seq_private Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 33/40] bluetooth: switch to proc_create_seq_data Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 34/40] atm: simplify procfs code Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-05 12:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-05-15 14:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-17 1:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 35/40] atm: switch to proc_create_seq_private Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 36/40] isdn: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 37/40] proc: don't detour through seq->private to get the inode Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 38/40] ide: remove ide_driver_proc_write Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-05 13:09 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 39/40] ide: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 15:48 ` [PATCH 40/40] tty: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-30 13:19 ` [PATCH 04/40] proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} David Howells
2018-05-15 14:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-30 15:38 ` simplify procfs code for seq_file instances V2 David Howells
2018-05-06 17:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-05-06 17:45 ` Al Viro
2018-05-09 16:53 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-05-15 14:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
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