security: revalidate rw permissions for sys_splice and sys_vmsplice
authorJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:44:32 +0000 (11:44 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:14:29 +0000 (14:14 +0200)
Revalidate read/write permissions for splice(2) and vmslice(2), in case
security policy has changed since the files were opened.

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
fs/splice.c

index ed2ce99..ef80822 100644 (file)
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
 
 /*
  * Attempt to steal a page from a pipe buffer. This should perhaps go into
@@ -961,6 +962,10 @@ static long do_splice_from(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
        if (unlikely(ret < 0))
                return ret;
 
+       ret = security_file_permission(out, MAY_WRITE);
+       if (unlikely(ret < 0))
+               return ret;
+
        return out->f_op->splice_write(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags);
 }
 
@@ -983,6 +988,10 @@ static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
        if (unlikely(ret < 0))
                return ret;
 
+       ret = security_file_permission(in, MAY_READ);
+       if (unlikely(ret < 0))
+               return ret;
+
        return in->f_op->splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
 }