[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Nov 12 12:45:38 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 90f40e0b3e384e900776a08b21e28ddab1560c6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:11:06 +0300
Subject: aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl

commit f856567b930dfcdbc3323261bf77240ccdde01f5 upstream.

In commit d496f94d22d1 ('[SCSI] aacraid: fix security weakness') we
added a check on CAP_SYS_RAWIO to the ioctl.  The compat ioctls need the
check as well.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
index 0d279c44..e9313f8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
@@ -777,6 +777,8 @@ static long aac_compat_do_ioctl(struct aac_dev *dev, unsigned cmd, unsigned long
 static int aac_compat_ioctl(struct scsi_device *sdev, int cmd, void __user *arg)
 {
 	struct aac_dev *dev = (struct aac_dev *)sdev->host->hostdata;
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
+		return -EPERM;
 	return aac_compat_do_ioctl(dev, cmd, (unsigned long)arg);
 }

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1.8.3.2





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