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authorJerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>2016-01-07 00:03:41 +0100
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-03-05 21:24:06 +0100
commit07accfa9d1a8bac8262f6d24a94a54d2d1f35149 (patch)
treee1c5fa13f27d8094d61a630d47cd1f6a621d3443
parentlibnvdimm: Clean-up access mode check. (diff)
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libnvdimm: Fix security issue with DSM IOCTL.
Code attempts to prevent certain IOCTL DSM from being called when device is opened read only. This security feature can be trivially overcome by changing the size portion of the ioctl_command which isn't used. Check only the _IOC_NR (i.e. the command). Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/nvdimm/bus.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
index f85227a5ee28..2e9ac22595ec 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
@@ -547,10 +547,10 @@ static int __nd_ioctl(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus, struct nvdimm *nvdimm,
/* fail write commands (when read-only) */
if (read_only)
- switch (ioctl_cmd) {
- case ND_IOCTL_VENDOR:
- case ND_IOCTL_SET_CONFIG_DATA:
- case ND_IOCTL_ARS_START:
+ switch (cmd) {
+ case ND_CMD_VENDOR:
+ case ND_CMD_SET_CONFIG_DATA:
+ case ND_CMD_ARS_START:
dev_dbg(&nvdimm_bus->dev, "'%s' command while read-only.\n",
nvdimm ? nvdimm_cmd_name(cmd)
: nvdimm_bus_cmd_name(cmd));