Commit e3f17f0f authored by Marcelo Tosatti's avatar Marcelo Tosatti Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Only disallow _setting_ of function key string

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> noted that the current 2.6-git (and 2.4)
patch to disallow KDSKBSENT for unpriviledged users should be less restrictive
allowing reading of current function key string entry, but not writing.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 796f8d9b
......@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ do_kdsk_ioctl(int cmd, struct kbentry __user *user_kbe, int perm, struct kbd_str
if (copy_from_user(&tmp, user_kbe, sizeof(struct kbentry)))
return -EFAULT;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG))
perm = 0;
switch (cmd) {
case KDGKBENT:
key_map = key_maps[s];
......@@ -193,7 +196,7 @@ do_kdgkb_ioctl(int cmd, struct kbsentry __user *user_kdgkb, int perm)
int ret;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG))
return -EPERM;
perm = 0;
kbs = kmalloc(sizeof(*kbs), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kbs) {
......
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