Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Akinobu Mita <> | Subject | [PATCH -mm 4/5] fault-inject: simplify access check for fail-nth | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2017 23:56:00 +0900 |
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The fail-nth file is created with 0666 and the access is permitted if and only if the task is current.
This file is owned by the currnet user. So we can create it with 0644 and allow the owner to write it. This enables to watch the status of task->fail_nth from another processes.
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> --- fs/proc/base.c | 22 ++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 9d14215..14e7b73 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -1366,16 +1366,16 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, int err; unsigned int n; + err = kstrtoint_from_user(buf, count, 0, &n); + if (err) + return err; + task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file)); if (!task) return -ESRCH; + task->fail_nth = n; put_task_struct(task); - if (task != current) - return -EPERM; - err = kstrtouint_from_user(buf, count, 0, &n); - if (err) - return err; - current->fail_nth = n; + return count; } @@ -1389,11 +1389,9 @@ static ssize_t proc_fail_nth_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file)); if (!task) return -ESRCH; - put_task_struct(task); - if (task != current) - return -EPERM; len = snprintf(numbuf, sizeof(numbuf), "%u\n", task->fail_nth); len = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, numbuf, len); + put_task_struct(task); return len; } @@ -3358,11 +3356,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = { #endif #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_fault_inject_operations), - /* - * Operations on the file check that the task is current, - * so we create it with 0666 to support testing under unprivileged user. - */ - REG("fail-nth", 0666, proc_fail_nth_operations), + REG("fail-nth", 0644, proc_fail_nth_operations), #endif #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING ONE("io", S_IRUSR, proc_tid_io_accounting), -- 2.7.4
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