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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-08-13 15:44:57 +0200 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-08-14 03:18:37 +0200 |
| commit | 9188499cdb117d86a1ea6b04374095b098d56936 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c0dd23f2c98630c426cbd0bfbf5e46cc689091e /security/security.c | |
| parent | Networking: use CAP_NET_ADMIN when deciding to call request_module (diff) | |
| download | linux-9188499cdb117d86a1ea6b04374095b098d56936.tar.xz linux-9188499cdb117d86a1ea6b04374095b098d56936.zip | |
security: introducing security_request_module
Calling request_module() will trigger a userspace upcall which will load a
new module into the kernel. This can be a dangerous event if the process
able to trigger request_module() is able to control either the modprobe
binary or the module binary. This patch adds a new security hook to
request_module() which can be used by an LSM to control a processes ability
to call request_module().
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/security.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/security.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index 4501c5e1f988..0e993f42ce3d 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -709,6 +709,11 @@ int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode) return security_ops->kernel_create_files_as(new, inode); } +int security_kernel_module_request(void) +{ + return security_ops->kernel_module_request(); +} + int security_task_setuid(uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags) { return security_ops->task_setuid(id0, id1, id2, flags); |