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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2012-01-12 16:01:28 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-14 15:07:24 -0800
commit0bfc96cb77224736dfa35c3c555d37b3646ef35e (patch)
treeaf5135c929ee8e1bdb38c306b2634dbc547d5189 /drivers
parent577ebb374c78314ac4617242f509e2f5e7156649 (diff)
block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
Linux allows executing the SG_IO ioctl on a partition or LVM volume, and will pass the command to the underlying block device. This is well-known, but it is also a large security problem when (via Unix permissions, ACLs, SELinux or a combination thereof) a program or user needs to be granted access only to part of the disk. This patch lets partitions forward a small set of harmless ioctls; others are logged with printk so that we can see which ioctls are actually sent. In my tests only CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY actually occurred. Of course it was being sent to a (partition on a) hard disk, so it would have failed with ENOTTY and the patch isn't changing anything in practice. Still, I'm treating it specially to avoid spamming the logs. In principle, this restriction should include programs running with CAP_SYS_RAWIO. If for example I let a program access /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb, it still should not be able to read/write outside the boundaries of /dev/sda2 independent of the capabilities. However, for now programs with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will still be allowed to send the ioctls. Their actions will still be logged. This patch does not affect the non-libata IDE driver. That driver however already tests for bd != bd->bd_contains before issuing some ioctl; it could be restricted further to forbid these ioctls even for programs running with CAP_SYS_ADMIN/CAP_SYS_RAWIO. Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [ Make it also print the command name when warning - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/sd.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index b4d57bb04c7..c691fb50e6c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -1075,6 +1075,10 @@ static int sd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
SCSI_LOG_IOCTL(1, sd_printk(KERN_INFO, sdkp, "sd_ioctl: disk=%s, "
"cmd=0x%x\n", disk->disk_name, cmd));
+ error = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(bdev, cmd);
+ if (error < 0)
+ return error;
+
/*
* If we are in the middle of error recovery, don't let anyone
* else try and use this device. Also, if error recovery fails, it
@@ -1267,6 +1271,11 @@ static int sd_compat_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
struct scsi_device *sdev = scsi_disk(bdev->bd_disk)->device;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(bdev, cmd);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
/*
* If we are in the middle of error recovery, don't let anyone
@@ -1278,8 +1287,6 @@ static int sd_compat_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
return -ENODEV;
if (sdev->host->hostt->compat_ioctl) {
- int ret;
-
ret = sdev->host->hostt->compat_ioctl(sdev, cmd, (void __user *)arg);
return ret;