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authorKees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>2010-02-03 15:36:43 -0800
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-02-04 14:20:12 +1100
commit002345925e6c45861f60db6f4fc6236713fd8847 (patch)
treed7849eafe1755116597166bbebf43e2bee86cb76 /fs/proc/kmsg.c
parent0719aaf5ead7555b7b7a4a080ebf2826a871384e (diff)
downloadlinux-002345925e6c45861f60db6f4fc6236713fd8847.tar.gz
syslog: distinguish between /proc/kmsg and syscalls
This allows the LSM to distinguish between syslog functions originating
from /proc/kmsg access and direct syscalls.  By default, the commoncaps
will now no longer require CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read an opened /proc/kmsg
file descriptor.  For example the kernel syslog reader can now drop
privileges after opening /proc/kmsg, instead of staying privileged with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.  MAC systems that implement security_syslog have unchanged
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/kmsg.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/kmsg.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/kmsg.c b/fs/proc/kmsg.c
index 7ca78346d3f0..6a3d843a1088 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kmsg.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kmsg.c
@@ -12,37 +12,37 @@
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/syslog.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
 extern wait_queue_head_t log_wait;
 
-extern int do_syslog(int type, char __user *bug, int count);
-
 static int kmsg_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
 {
-	return do_syslog(1,NULL,0);
+	return do_syslog(1, NULL, 0, SYSLOG_FROM_FILE);
 }
 
 static int kmsg_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file)
 {
-	(void) do_syslog(0,NULL,0);
+	(void) do_syslog(0, NULL, 0, SYSLOG_FROM_FILE);
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static ssize_t kmsg_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 			 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
-	if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) && !do_syslog(9, NULL, 0))
+	if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) &&
+	    !do_syslog(9, NULL, 0, SYSLOG_FROM_FILE))
 		return -EAGAIN;
-	return do_syslog(2, buf, count);
+	return do_syslog(2, buf, count, SYSLOG_FROM_FILE);
 }
 
 static unsigned int kmsg_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 {
 	poll_wait(file, &log_wait, wait);
-	if (do_syslog(9, NULL, 0))
+	if (do_syslog(9, NULL, 0, SYSLOG_FROM_FILE))
 		return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
 	return 0;
 }