Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 14:42:43 EST


On 07/09/2007 06:14 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> Are the shortlogs useful - yes .. they catch what appear to be mistakes
>
> Specifically: What happened to the aacraid ioctl security fix ? Did someone decide it
> wasn't needed or did it get lost somewhere on the way ?
>
> While this looks scary the only obvious exploit cases are where the user can
> open a device level file on an AACraid. Very few people put scanners or CD
> devices on one so the actual impact is probably minimal.

I can't find that patch in any SCSI git tree.

> --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c~ 2007-07-09 10:51:55.653223304 +0100
> +++ drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c 2007-07-09 10:51:55.653223304 +0100
> @@ -453,6 +453,8 @@
> static int aac_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;

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