Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 6 authors, 2009-10-09
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[PATCH 8/8] uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets

From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Date: 2009-10-02 12:40:27
Also in: dm-devel, linux-fbdev, lkml
Subsystem: framebuffer layer, the rest · Maintainers: Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
---
 drivers/video/uvesafb.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index aa7cd95..e35232a 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static void uvesafb_cn_callback(struct cn_msg *msg, struct netlink_skb_parms *ns
 	struct uvesafb_task *utask;
 	struct uvesafb_ktask *task;
 
+	if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return;
+
 	if (msg->seq >= UVESAFB_TASKS_MAX)
 		return;
 
-- 
1.6.0.4
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