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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2013-05-24 09:49:14 -0400
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2013-11-05 11:08:09 -0500
commit81407c84ace88368ff23abb81caaeacf050c8450 (patch)
tree16073582364ac97b798010640da348a68460b73d /fs/proc
parent83fa6bbe4c4541ae748b550b4ec391f8a0acfe94 (diff)
audit: allow unsetting the loginuid (with priv)
If a task has CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL allow that task to unset their loginuid. This would allow a child of that task to set their loginuid without CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL. Thus when launching a new login daemon, a priviledged helper would be able to unset the loginuid and then the daemon, which may be malicious user facing, do not need priv to function correctly. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 1485e38daaa3..03c8d747be48 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1151,10 +1151,16 @@ static ssize_t proc_loginuid_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
goto out_free_page;
}
- kloginuid = make_kuid(file->f_cred->user_ns, loginuid);
- if (!uid_valid(kloginuid)) {
- length = -EINVAL;
- goto out_free_page;
+
+ /* is userspace tring to explicitly UNSET the loginuid? */
+ if (loginuid == AUDIT_UID_UNSET) {
+ kloginuid = INVALID_UID;
+ } else {
+ kloginuid = make_kuid(file->f_cred->user_ns, loginuid);
+ if (!uid_valid(kloginuid)) {
+ length = -EINVAL;
+ goto out_free_page;
+ }
}
length = audit_set_loginuid(kloginuid);