From 17f60a7da150fdd0cfb9756f86a262daa72c835f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:07:50 -0400 Subject: capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpers There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user didn't have cap_sys_module. The reason is because the actual load is done by a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set. This patch addes new sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers. /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritable You must have CAP_SYS_MODULE and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are &= ONLY). When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these as the bset and pI. -v2: make globals static create spinlock to protect globals -v3: require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE -v4: fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit Signed-off-by: Eric Paris No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan Signed-off-by: James Morris --- include/linux/kmod.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/kmod.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h index 6efd7a78de6a..79bb98d71858 100644 --- a/include/linux/kmod.h +++ b/include/linux/kmod.h @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define KMOD_PATH_LEN 256 @@ -109,6 +110,8 @@ call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait) NULL, NULL, NULL); } +extern struct ctl_table usermodehelper_table[]; + extern void usermodehelper_init(void); extern int usermodehelper_disable(void); -- cgit v1.2.3