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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-12-22 00:10:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-12-22 00:10:01 -0700 |
| commit | 752a4a95e3c96a8e8d3405b16d292f13e8c7856b (patch) | |
| tree | 838e43696fdc45b83f082eef7230d79cfe699497 /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | bc3f67a3e1b20756d4bfa5886a6b8fd0c068e6a4 (diff) | |
| parent | 90a8a73c06cc32b609a880d48449d7083327e11a (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into spi/next
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index b2ebaee8c377..a23315dc4498 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ static inline void boot_delay_msec(void) } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT +int dmesg_restrict = 1; +#else +int dmesg_restrict; +#endif + int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) { unsigned i, j, limit, count; @@ -268,7 +274,20 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) char c; int error = 0; - error = security_syslog(type, from_file); + /* + * If this is from /proc/kmsg we only do the capabilities checks + * at open time. + */ + if (type == SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN || !from_file) { + if (dmesg_restrict && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL && + type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) && + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + } + + error = security_syslog(type); if (error) return error; @@ -1063,13 +1082,15 @@ void printk_tick(void) int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu) { + if (unlikely(cpu_is_offline(cpu))) + printk_tick(); return per_cpu(printk_pending, cpu); } void wake_up_klogd(void) { if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait)) - __raw_get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 1; + this_cpu_write(printk_pending, 1); } /** |