This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl to the 3.11-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: aacraid-missing-capable-check-in-compat-ioctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f856567b930dfcdbc3323261bf77240ccdde01f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:11:06 +0300 Subject: aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f856567b930dfcdbc3323261bf77240ccdde01f5 upstream. In commit d496f94d22d1 ('[SCSI] aacraid: fix security weakness') we added a check on CAP_SYS_RAWIO to the ioctl. The compat ioctls need the check as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c @@ -771,6 +771,8 @@ static long aac_compat_do_ioctl(struct a static int aac_compat_ioctl(struct scsi_device *sdev, int cmd, void __user *arg) { struct aac_dev *dev = (struct aac_dev *)sdev->host->hostdata; + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) + return -EPERM; return aac_compat_do_ioctl(dev, cmd, (unsigned long)arg); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/staging-wlags49_h2-buffer-overflow-setting-station-name.patch queue-3.11/staging-ozwpan-prevent-overflow-in-oz_cdev_write.patch queue-3.11/aacraid-missing-capable-check-in-compat-ioctl.patch queue-3.11/staging-bcm-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch queue-3.11/uml-check-length-in-exitcode_proc_write.patch queue-3.11/staging-sb105x-info-leak-in-mp_get_count.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html