The autofs miscellanous device ioctls that shouldn't require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN need to be accessible to user space applications in
order to be able to get information about autofs mounts.
The module checks capabilities so the miscelaneous device should
be fine with broad permissions.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ondrej Holy <oholy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
index 734cbf8..9b58d6e 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
@@ -733,7 +733,8 @@ static const struct file_operations _dev_ioctl_fops = {
static struct miscdevice _autofs_dev_ioctl_misc = {
.minor = AUTOFS_MINOR,
.name = AUTOFS_DEVICE_NAME,
- .fops = &_dev_ioctl_fops
+ .fops = &_dev_ioctl_fops,
+ .mode = 0666
};
MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(AUTOFS_MINOR);
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