This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/nfc/rawsock.c: fix a permission check bug
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-nfc-rawsock.c-fix-a-permission-check-bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4d2de2ec971b6436948ba5a8391875fbff4f2cb5
Author: Jeimon <jjjinmeng.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat May 8 11:52:30 2021 +0800
net/nfc/rawsock.c: fix a permission check bug
[ Upstream commit 8ab78863e9eff11910e1ac8bcf478060c29b379e ]
The function rawsock_create() calls a privileged function sk_alloc(), which requires a ns-aware check to check net->user_ns, i.e., ns_capable(). However, the original code checks the init_user_ns using capable(). So we replace the capable() with ns_capable().
Signed-off-by: Jeimon <jjjinmeng.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/nfc/rawsock.c b/net/nfc/rawsock.c
index 92a3cfae4de8..2fba626a0125 100644
--- a/net/nfc/rawsock.c
+++ b/net/nfc/rawsock.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int rawsock_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
return -ESOCKTNOSUPPORT;
if (sock->type == SOCK_RAW) {
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_RAW))
+ if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW))
return -EPERM;
sock->ops = &rawsock_raw_ops;
} else {
