Commit-ID: 25b68a8f0ab13a98de02650208ec927796659898
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/25b68a8f0ab13a98de02650208ec927796659898
Author: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:13:59 -0500
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:53:44 +0100
timerfd: Only check CAP_WAKE_ALARM when it is needed
timerfd_create() and do_timerfd_settime() evaluate capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM)
unconditionally although CAP_WAKE_ALARM is only required for
CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM.
This can cause extraneous audit messages when using a LSM such as SELinux,
incorrectly causes PF_SUPERPRIV to be set even when no privilege was
exercised, and is inefficient.
Flip the order of the tests in both functions so that we only call
capable() if the capability is truly required for the operation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487344439-22293-1-git-send-email-sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/timerfd.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c
index 384fa75..c543cdb 100644
--- a/fs/timerfd.c
+++ b/fs/timerfd.c
@@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(timerfd_create, int, clockid, int, flags)
clockid != CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM))
return -EINVAL;
- if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) &&
- (clockid == CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM ||
- clockid == CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM))
+ if ((clockid == CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM ||
+ clockid == CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM) &&
+ !capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM))
return -EPERM;
ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static int do_timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
return ret;
ctx = f.file->private_data;
- if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM) && isalarm(ctx)) {
+ if (isalarm(ctx) && !capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM)) {
fdput(f);
return -EPERM;
}
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