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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2014-12-05 17:19:27 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-01-08 09:58:16 -0800
commit4accc8c8e2dbb1f5ff3d8836244a9423bd5e11a9 (patch)
treec9053320139b9306539458f2f56df1e31c24a3db /kernel
parentc65d3b05d20c15f4421f853cbd2d41b91a12185e (diff)
groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks
commit 7ff4d90b4c24a03666f296c3d4878cd39001e81e upstream. Today there are 3 instances of setgroups and due to an oversight their permission checking has diverged. Add a common function so that they may all share the same permission checking code. This corrects the current oversight in the current permission checks and adds a helper to avoid this in the future. A user namespace security fix will update this new helper, shortly. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/groups.c9
-rw-r--r--kernel/uid16.c2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index 6b2588dd04ff..984bb629c68c 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -223,6 +223,13 @@ out:
return i;
}
+bool may_setgroups(void)
+{
+ struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();
+
+ return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID);
+}
+
/*
* SMP: Our groups are copy-on-write. We can set them safely
* without another task interfering.
@@ -233,7 +240,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups, int, gidsetsize, gid_t __user *, grouplist)
struct group_info *group_info;
int retval;
- if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SETGID))
+ if (!may_setgroups())
return -EPERM;
if ((unsigned)gidsetsize > NGROUPS_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/kernel/uid16.c b/kernel/uid16.c
index f6c83d7ef000..d58cc4d8f0d1 100644
--- a/kernel/uid16.c
+++ b/kernel/uid16.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups16, int, gidsetsize, old_gid_t __user *, grouplist)
struct group_info *group_info;
int retval;
- if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SETGID))
+ if (!may_setgroups())
return -EPERM;
if ((unsigned)gidsetsize > NGROUPS_MAX)
return -EINVAL;