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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:31:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:32:03 +0000 |
| commit | 4ec3eb13634529c0bc7466658d84d0bbe3244aea (patch) | |
| tree | b491daac2ccfc7b8ca88e171a43f66888463568a /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | 24056f525051a9e186af28904b396320e18bf9a0 (diff) | |
| parent | 15095bb0fe779c0403091bda7adce5fb3bb9ca35 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'smp' into misc
Conflicts:
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index b2ebaee8c377..9a2264fc42ca 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ static inline void boot_delay_msec(void) } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT +int dmesg_restrict = 1; +#else +int dmesg_restrict; +#endif + int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) { unsigned i, j, limit, count; @@ -268,7 +274,20 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) char c; int error = 0; - error = security_syslog(type, from_file); + /* + * If this is from /proc/kmsg we only do the capabilities checks + * at open time. + */ + if (type == SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN || !from_file) { + if (dmesg_restrict && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL && + type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) && + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + } + + error = security_syslog(type); if (error) return error; |