Currently, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is responsible for tty-related functions in tty_ioctl(): TIOCSTI, TIOCCONS, TIOCVHANGUP. CAP_SYS_ADMIN is already overloaded, change it to CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG for a more fine-grained and accurate access control. Signed-off-by: Jingzi Meng <mengjingzi@xxxxxxxxx> --- The userland api affected by this change is the ioctl system call, especially when the second argument is TIOCSTI, TIOCCONS, TIOCVHANGUP, which now requires sys_tty_config instead of sys_admin. Tested on Debian with kernel 6.7.0-rc5. drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index f3ca2105b66d..c81479366317 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ static int tiocsti(struct tty_struct *tty, u8 __user *p) if (!tty_legacy_tiocsti && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EIO; - if ((current->signal->tty != tty) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if ((current->signal->tty != tty) && !capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG)) return -EPERM; if (get_user(ch, p)) return -EFAULT; @@ -2390,7 +2390,7 @@ static int tiocswinsz(struct tty_struct *tty, struct winsize __user *arg) */ static int tioccons(struct file *file) { - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG)) return -EPERM; if (file->f_op->write_iter == redirected_tty_write) { struct file *f; @@ -2719,7 +2719,7 @@ long tty_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) case TIOCSETD: return tiocsetd(tty, p); case TIOCVHANGUP: - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG)) return -EPERM; tty_vhangup(tty); return 0; -- 2.20.1