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| author | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-12-01 15:13:56 +0300 |
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| committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-12-01 15:13:56 +0300 |
| commit | 307991055b0ce65d53dc1eb501c456c10eb36360 (patch) | |
| tree | 71bb9263dc71344e5d7b97ca6d5cf223f1f1a856 /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | 1198c6d45a1ef5f4f7fdfbf33ef7d270493ec575 (diff) | |
| parent | 9b4320b77bab4031649c484da1c595f39c2e43cd (diff) | |
| download | linux-307991055b0ce65d53dc1eb501c456c10eb36360.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'kconfig_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-next into kbuild/rc-fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index b2ebaee8c377..9a2264fc42ca 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ static inline void boot_delay_msec(void) } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT +int dmesg_restrict = 1; +#else +int dmesg_restrict; +#endif + int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) { unsigned i, j, limit, count; @@ -268,7 +274,20 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) char c; int error = 0; - error = security_syslog(type, from_file); + /* + * 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_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL && + type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) && + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + } + + error = security_syslog(type); if (error) return error; |