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| author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2010-11-29 08:27:07 +1100 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2010-11-29 08:27:07 +1100 |
| commit | 1d6d75684d869406e5bb2ac5d3ed9454f52d0cab (patch) | |
| tree | afb229254bed6415407b7b7d4641f9f792109966 /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | 074e61ec3751da9ab88ee66d3818574556c03489 (diff) | |
| parent | 0f639a3c5ca63dd76ee07de9b02ebf0178ce9a17 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into next
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 b2ebaee8c37..9a2264fc42c 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; |