08 Oct, 2016

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06 Dec, 2014

1 commit

  • Today there are 3 instances of setgroups and due to an oversight their
    permission checking has diverged. Add a common function so that
    they may all share the same permission checking code.

    This corrects the current oversight in the current permission checks
    and adds a helper to avoid this in the future.

    A user namespace security fix will update this new helper, shortly.

    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

    Eric W. Biederman
     

31 Aug, 2013

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04 Mar, 2013

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03 May, 2012

2 commits


24 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • CAP_IPC_OWNER and CAP_IPC_LOCK can be checked against current_user_ns(),
    because the resource comes from current's own ipc namespace.

    setuid/setgid are to uids in own namespace, so again checks can be against
    current_user_ns().

    Changelog:
    Jan 11: Use task_ns_capable() in place of sched_capable().
    Jan 11: Use nsown_capable() as suggested by Bastian Blank.
    Jan 11: Clarify (hopefully) some logic in futex and sched.c
    Feb 15: use ns_capable for ipc, not nsown_capable
    Feb 23: let copy_ipcs handle setting ipc_ns->user_ns
    Feb 23: pass ns down rather than taking it from current

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Cc: James Morris
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Serge E. Hallyn
     

24 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • * remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h --
    not needed after kref conversion
    * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it

    NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however
    due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related
    headers and files alone.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

14 Jan, 2009

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14 Nov, 2008

2 commits


11 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler
    clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions
    is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call
    optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use
    stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent.
    Other optimizations can do it too.

    Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the
    compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all
    the manifestations of this issue that crop up.

    More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument
    variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original
    stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler
    tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but
    it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not.

    Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Roland McGrath
     

09 May, 2007

1 commit


20 Apr, 2006

1 commit

  • Those also break userland regs like following.

    00000000 :
    0: 0f b7 44 24 0c movzwl 0xc(%esp),%eax
    5: 83 ca ff or $0xffffffff,%edx
    8: 0f b7 4c 24 08 movzwl 0x8(%esp),%ecx
    d: 66 83 f8 ff cmp $0xffffffff,%ax
    11: 0f 44 c2 cmove %edx,%eax
    14: 66 83 f9 ff cmp $0xffffffff,%cx
    18: 0f 45 d1 cmovne %ecx,%edx
    1b: 89 44 24 0c mov %eax,0xc(%esp)
    1f: 89 54 24 08 mov %edx,0x8(%esp)
    23: e9 fc ff ff ff jmp 24

    where the tailcall at the end overwrites the incoming stack-frame.

    Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi
    [ I would _really_ like to have a way to tell gcc about calling
    conventions. The "prevent_tail_call()" macro is pretty ugly ]
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    OGAWA Hirofumi
     

12 Jan, 2006

1 commit

  • - Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

    - Use where capable() is used
    (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
    mm/, security/, & sound/;
    many more drivers/ to go)

    Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Randy.Dunlap
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds