Commit 02241271 authored by Seth Forshee's avatar Seth Forshee

block_dev: Check permissions towards block device inode when mounting

Unprivileged users should not be able to mount block devices when
they lack sufficient privileges towards the block device inode.
Update blkdev_get_by_path() to validate that the user has the
required access to the inode at the specified path. The check
will be skipped for CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so privileged mounts will
continue working as before.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
parent 054e3188
......@@ -1394,9 +1394,14 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_path(const char *path, fmode_t mode,
void *holder)
{
struct block_device *bdev;
int perm = 0;
int err;
bdev = lookup_bdev(path, 0);
if (mode & FMODE_READ)
perm |= MAY_READ;
if (mode & FMODE_WRITE)
perm |= MAY_WRITE;
bdev = lookup_bdev(path, perm);
if (IS_ERR(bdev))
return bdev;
......
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