[30/70] pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 22 2011 - 17:31:31 EST


2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit a628e7b87e100befac9702aa0c3b9848a7685e49 upstream.

This reintroduces commit 47970b1b which was subsequently reverted
as f00eaeea. The original change was broken and caused X startup
failures and generally made privileged processes incapable of reading
device dependent config space. The normal capable() interface returns
true on success, but the LSM interface returns 0 on success. This thinko
is now fixed in this patch, and has been confirmed to work properly.

So, once again...Eric Paris noted that commit de139a3 ("pci: check caps
from sysfs file open to read device dependent config space") caused the
capability check to bypass security modules and potentially auditing.
Rectify this by calling security_capable() when checking the open file's
capabilities for config space reads.

Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/pci-aspm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "pci.h"
@@ -368,7 +369,7 @@ pci_read_config(struct file *filp, struc
u8 *data = (u8*) buf;

/* Several chips lock up trying to read undefined config space */
- if (cap_raised(filp->f_cred->cap_effective, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ if (security_capable(filp->f_cred, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) == 0) {
size = dev->cfg_size;
} else if (dev->hdr_type == PCI_HEADER_TYPE_CARDBUS) {
size = 128;


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