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sysctl: Pass useful parameters to sysctl permissions
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- Current is implicitly avaiable so passing current->nsproxy isn't useful.
- The ctl_table_header is needed to find how the sysctl table is connected
  to the rest of sysctl.
- ctl_table_root is avaiable in the ctl_table_header so no need to it.

With these changes it becomes possible to write a version of
net_sysctl_permission that takes into account the network namespace of
the sysctl table, an important feature in extending the user namespace.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored and David S. Miller committed Nov 19, 2012
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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
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Expand Up @@ -378,12 +378,13 @@ static int test_perm(int mode, int op)
return -EACCES;
}

static int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
static int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
{
struct ctl_table_root *root = head->root;
int mode;

if (root->permissions)
mode = root->permissions(root, current->nsproxy, table);
mode = root->permissions(head, table);
else
mode = table->mode;

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* and won't be until we finish.
*/
error = -EPERM;
if (sysctl_perm(head->root, table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ))
if (sysctl_perm(head, table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ))
goto out;

/* if that can happen at all, it should be -EINVAL, not -EISDIR */
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if (!table) /* global root - r-xr-xr-x */
error = mask & MAY_WRITE ? -EACCES : 0;
else /* Use the permissions on the sysctl table entry */
error = sysctl_perm(head->root, table, mask & ~MAY_NOT_BLOCK);
error = sysctl_perm(head, table, mask & ~MAY_NOT_BLOCK);

sysctl_head_finish(head);
return error;
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions include/linux/sysctl.h
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Expand Up @@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ struct ctl_table_root {
struct ctl_table_set default_set;
struct ctl_table_set *(*lookup)(struct ctl_table_root *root,
struct nsproxy *namespaces);
int (*permissions)(struct ctl_table_root *root,
struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table);
int (*permissions)(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table);
};

/* struct ctl_path describes where in the hierarchy a table is added */
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions net/sysctl_net.c
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Expand Up @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ static int is_seen(struct ctl_table_set *set)
}

/* Return standard mode bits for table entry. */
static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_root *root,
struct nsproxy *nsproxy,
static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
struct ctl_table *table)
{
/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */
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