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| author | Pavel Emelyanov | 2008-04-29 01:02:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2008-04-29 08:06:23 -0700 |
| commit | d7321cd62470b70d2717dae5a963e7a8fabff4d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e3468e44239a310b03c3f8dabf754e64b6ad281 /fs | |
| parent | 2c4c7155f25192da3511a6c911db4d08102d36c4 (diff) | |
sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root
When reading from/writing to some table, a root, which this table came from,
may affect this table's permissions, depending on who is working with the
table.
The core hunk is at the bottom of this patch. All the rest is just pushing
the ctl_table_root argument up to the sysctl_perm() function.
This will be mostly (only?) used in the net sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 5e31585292a0..5acc001d49f6 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *buf, * and won't be until we finish. */ error = -EPERM; - if (sysctl_perm(table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ)) + if (sysctl_perm(head->root, table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ)) goto out; /* careful: calling conventions are nasty here */ @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int proc_sys_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata * goto out; /* Use the permissions on the sysctl table entry */ - error = sysctl_perm(table, mask); + error = sysctl_perm(head->root, table, mask); out: sysctl_head_finish(head); return error; |