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  1. 14 Mar, 2011 16 commits
  3. 13 Mar, 2011 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      compat breakage in preadv() and pwritev() · 586ce098
      Al Viro authored 
      Fix for a dumb preadv()/pwritev() compat bug - unlike the native
variants, compat_... ones forget to check FMODE_P{READ,WRITE}, so e.g.
on pipe the native preadv() will fail with -ESPIPE and compat one will
act as readv() and succeed.  Not critical, but it's a clear bug with trivial
fix.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      586ce098
  5. 10 Mar, 2011 21 commits
  7. 09 Mar, 2011 2 commits
    • Vasiliy Kulikov's avatar
      net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules · 8909c9ad
      Vasiliy Kulikov authored 
      Since a8f80e8f any process with
CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/.  This doesn't mean
that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
limited to /lib/modules/**.  However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
allow anybody load any module not related to networking.

This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
with explicit aliases.  This fixes CVE-2011-1019.

Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior
of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes
with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts
that use autoloading netdev modules by aliases like "eth0", "wlan0".

Currently there are only three users of the feature in the upstream
kernel: ipip, ip_gre and sit.

    root@albatros:~# capsh --drop=$(seq -s, 0 11),$(seq -s, 13 34) --
    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	fffffff800001000
    CapEff:	fffffff800001000
    CapBnd:	fffffff800001000
    root@albatros:~# modprobe xfs
    FATAL: Error inserting xfs
    (/lib/modules/2.6.38-rc6-00001-g2bf4ca3/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Operation not permitted
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit
    sit: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit0
    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
	      NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    sit                    10457  0
    tunnel4                 2957  1 sit

For CAP_SYS_MODULE module loading is still relaxed:

    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapEff:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapBnd:	ffffffffffffffff
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    xfs                   745319  0

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203Signed-off-by: default avatarVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      8909c9ad
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      powerpc/pseries: Disable VPNH feature · 36e8695c
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored 
      This feature triggers nasty races in the scheduler between the
rebuilding of the topology and the load balancing code, causing
the machine to hang.

Disable it for now until the races are fixed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      36e8695c
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