[PATCH 5.4 031/261] lockdown: Allow unprivileged users to see lockdown status

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 12:08:57 EST


From: Jeremy Cline <jcline@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 60cf7c5ed5f7087c4de87a7676b8c82d96fd166c ]

A number of userspace tools, such as systemtap, need a way to see the
current lockdown state so they can gracefully deal with the kernel being
locked down. The state is already exposed in
/sys/kernel/security/lockdown, but is only readable by root. Adjust the
permissions so unprivileged users can read the state.

Fixes: 000d388ed3bb ("security: Add a static lockdown policy LSM")
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/lockdown/lockdown.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
index b2f87015d6e9..3f38583bed06 100644
--- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
+++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int __init lockdown_secfs_init(void)
{
struct dentry *dentry;

- dentry = securityfs_create_file("lockdown", 0600, NULL, NULL,
+ dentry = securityfs_create_file("lockdown", 0644, NULL, NULL,
&lockdown_ops);
return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(dentry);
}
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2.25.1