[PATCH 3/3] autofs - make dev ioctl version and ismountpoint user accessible

From: Ian Kent
Date: Tue Aug 08 2017 - 00:36:31 EST


Some of the autofs miscellaneous device ioctls need to be accessable to
user space applications without CAP_SYS_ADMIN to get information about
autofs mounts.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ondrej Holy <oholy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 12 ++++++++----
include/uapi/linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
index 218a4ecc75cc..ea8b3a1cddd2 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
@@ -628,10 +628,6 @@ static int _autofs_dev_ioctl(unsigned int command,
ioctl_fn fn = NULL;
int err = 0;

- /* only root can play with this */
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
-
cmd_first = _IOC_NR(AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_IOC_FIRST);
cmd = _IOC_NR(command);

@@ -640,6 +636,14 @@ static int _autofs_dev_ioctl(unsigned int command,
return -ENOTTY;
}

+ /* Only root can use ioctls other than AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_VERSION_CMD
+ * and AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_ISMOUNTPOINT_CMD
+ */
+ if (cmd != AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_VERSION_CMD &&
+ cmd != AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_ISMOUNTPOINT_CMD &&
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
/* Copy the parameters into kernel space. */
param = copy_dev_ioctl(user);
if (IS_ERR(param))
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h
index 744b3d060968..5558db8e6646 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
#define AUTOFS_DEVICE_NAME "autofs"

#define AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_VERSION_MINOR 0
+#define AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_VERSION_MINOR 1

#define AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_SIZE sizeof(struct autofs_dev_ioctl)