UBUNTU: SAUCE: (namespace) block_dev: Check permissions towards block device inode...

Unprivileged users should not be able to mount block devices when
they lack sufficient privileges towards the block device inode.
Update blkdev_get_by_path() to validate that the user has the
required access to the inode at the specified path. The check
will be skipped for CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so privileged mounts will
continue working as before.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 6c00227303d90655343da77cda2e74a459387a58..3a639adc02b2e4c4ee0e1d222eff8f37abd3668a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1742,9 +1742,14 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_path(const char *path, fmode_t mode,
                                        void *holder)
 {
        struct block_device *bdev;
+       int perm = 0;
        int err;
 
-       bdev = lookup_bdev(path, 0);
+       if (mode & FMODE_READ)
+               perm |= MAY_READ;
+       if (mode & FMODE_WRITE)
+               perm |= MAY_WRITE;
+       bdev = lookup_bdev(path, perm);
        if (IS_ERR(bdev))
                return bdev;