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sysctl: Pass useful parameters to sysctl permissions

- Current is implicitly avaiable so passing current->nsproxy isn't useful.
- The ctl_table_header is needed to find how the sysctl table is connected
  to the rest of sysctl.
- ctl_table_root is avaiable in the ctl_table_header so no need to it.

With these changes it becomes possible to write a version of
net_sysctl_permission that takes into account the network namespace of
the sysctl table, an important feature in extending the user namespace.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric W. Biederman 12 years ago
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3 changed files with 7 additions and 8 deletions
  1. 5 4
      fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
  2. 1 2
      include/linux/sysctl.h
  3. 1 2
      net/sysctl_net.c

+ 5 - 4
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c

@@ -378,12 +378,13 @@ static int test_perm(int mode, int op)
 	return -EACCES;
 }
 
-static int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_root *root, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
+static int sysctl_perm(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table, int op)
 {
+	struct ctl_table_root *root = head->root;
 	int mode;
 
 	if (root->permissions)
-		mode = root->permissions(root, current->nsproxy, table);
+		mode = root->permissions(head, table);
 	else
 		mode = table->mode;
 
@@ -491,7 +492,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *buf,
 	 * and won't be until we finish.
 	 */
 	error = -EPERM;
-	if (sysctl_perm(head->root, table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ))
+	if (sysctl_perm(head, table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ))
 		goto out;
 
 	/* if that can happen at all, it should be -EINVAL, not -EISDIR */
@@ -717,7 +718,7 @@ static int proc_sys_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	if (!table) /* global root - r-xr-xr-x */
 		error = mask & MAY_WRITE ? -EACCES : 0;
 	else /* Use the permissions on the sysctl table entry */
-		error = sysctl_perm(head->root, table, mask & ~MAY_NOT_BLOCK);
+		error = sysctl_perm(head, table, mask & ~MAY_NOT_BLOCK);
 
 	sysctl_head_finish(head);
 	return error;

+ 1 - 2
include/linux/sysctl.h

@@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ struct ctl_table_root {
 	struct ctl_table_set default_set;
 	struct ctl_table_set *(*lookup)(struct ctl_table_root *root,
 					   struct nsproxy *namespaces);
-	int (*permissions)(struct ctl_table_root *root,
-			struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table);
+	int (*permissions)(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct ctl_table *table);
 };
 
 /* struct ctl_path describes where in the hierarchy a table is added */

+ 1 - 2
net/sysctl_net.c

@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ static int is_seen(struct ctl_table_set *set)
 }
 
 /* Return standard mode bits for table entry. */
-static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_root *root,
-			       struct nsproxy *nsproxy,
+static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
 			       struct ctl_table *table)
 {
 	/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */