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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-08-10 13:36:35 -0700
committerMichael Bestas <mkbestas@lineageos.org>2020-01-27 20:39:02 +0200
commit7d41636897e1e39a2025efe2cb0d8a6ac15c28a5 (patch)
tree8d99b240cdc8cd08d3e9b619e0d86201aa738ee2
parent3edf0a32f5825b8b71edb6a8953eedb6400d271c (diff)
FROMLIST: Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps"
This reverts commit 68c4a4f8abc60c9440ede9cd123d48b78325f7a3, with various conflict clean-ups. With the default root directory mode set to 0750 now, the capability check was redundant. Bug: 64503253 Change-Id: Ia361706f70eb691ebb8f7a41359ceb91c8495910 Suggested-by: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Siqi Lin <siqilin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> (am from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9894575/)
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/inode.c22
-rw-r--r--include/linux/syslog.h9
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c3
3 files changed, 1 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 75bf5e7d5d84..7a380208b006 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
-#include <linux/syslog.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -122,18 +121,6 @@ static const struct seq_operations pstore_ftrace_seq_ops = {
.show = pstore_ftrace_seq_show,
};
-static int pstore_check_syslog_permissions(struct pstore_private *ps)
-{
- switch (ps->type) {
- case PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG:
- case PSTORE_TYPE_CONSOLE:
- return check_syslog_permissions(SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL,
- SYSLOG_FROM_READER);
- default:
- return 0;
- }
-}
-
static ssize_t pstore_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
@@ -152,10 +139,6 @@ static int pstore_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
int err;
const struct seq_operations *sops = NULL;
- err = pstore_check_syslog_permissions(ps);
- if (err)
- return err;
-
if (ps->type == PSTORE_TYPE_FTRACE)
sops = &pstore_ftrace_seq_ops;
@@ -192,11 +175,6 @@ static const struct file_operations pstore_file_operations = {
static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct pstore_private *p = d_inode(dentry)->i_private;
- int err;
-
- err = pstore_check_syslog_permissions(p);
- if (err)
- return err;
if (p->psi->erase)
p->psi->erase(p->type, p->id, p->count,
diff --git a/include/linux/syslog.h b/include/linux/syslog.h
index c3a7f0cc3a27..e1c3632f4e81 100644
--- a/include/linux/syslog.h
+++ b/include/linux/syslog.h
@@ -49,13 +49,4 @@
int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int count, int source);
-#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
-int check_syslog_permissions(int type, int source);
-#else
-static inline int check_syslog_permissions(int type, int source)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
#endif /* _LINUX_SYSLOG_H */
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fd63b4d06139..4bbafc2a4822 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ static int syslog_action_restricted(int type)
type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER;
}
-int check_syslog_permissions(int type, int source)
+static int check_syslog_permissions(int type, int source)
{
/*
* If this is from /proc/kmsg and we've already opened it, then we've
@@ -525,7 +525,6 @@ int check_syslog_permissions(int type, int source)
ok:
return security_syslog(type);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(check_syslog_permissions);
static void append_char(char **pp, char *e, char c)
{