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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-03 13:07:43 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-03 13:07:43 -0400
commit3cc50ac0dbda5100684e570247782330155d35e0 (patch)
treef4b8f22d1725ebe65d2fe658d292dabacd7ed564 /fs/cachefiles/security.c
parentd9b9be024a6628a01d8730d1fd0b5f25658a2794 (diff)
parentb797cac7487dee6bfddeb161631c1bbc54fa3cdb (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (41 commits) NFS: Add mount options to enable local caching on NFS NFS: Display local caching state NFS: Store pages from an NFS inode into a local cache NFS: Read pages from FS-Cache into an NFS inode NFS: nfs_readpage_async() needs to be accessible as a fallback for local caching NFS: Add read context retention for FS-Cache to call back with NFS: FS-Cache page management NFS: Add some new I/O counters for FS-Cache doing things for NFS NFS: Invalidate FsCache page flags when cache removed NFS: Use local disk inode cache NFS: Define and create inode-level cache objects NFS: Define and create superblock-level objects NFS: Define and create server-level objects NFS: Register NFS for caching and retrieve the top-level index NFS: Permit local filesystem caching to be enabled for NFS NFS: Add FS-Cache option bit and debug bit NFS: Add comment banners to some NFS functions FS-Cache: Make kAFS use FS-Cache CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles ...
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1/* CacheFiles security management
2 *
3 * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
4 * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
5 *
6 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
8 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
9 * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
10 */
11
12#include <linux/fs.h>
13#include <linux/cred.h>
14#include "internal.h"
15
16/*
17 * determine the security context within which we access the cache from within
18 * the kernel
19 */
20int cachefiles_get_security_ID(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
21{
22 struct cred *new;
23 int ret;
24
25 _enter("{%s}", cache->secctx);
26
27 new = prepare_kernel_cred(current);
28 if (!new) {
29 ret = -ENOMEM;
30 goto error;
31 }
32
33 if (cache->secctx) {
34 ret = set_security_override_from_ctx(new, cache->secctx);
35 if (ret < 0) {
36 put_cred(new);
37 printk(KERN_ERR "CacheFiles:"
38 " Security denies permission to nominate"
39 " security context: error %d\n",
40 ret);
41 goto error;
42 }
43 }
44
45 cache->cache_cred = new;
46 ret = 0;
47error:
48 _leave(" = %d", ret);
49 return ret;
50}
51
52/*
53 * see if mkdir and create can be performed in the root directory
54 */
55static int cachefiles_check_cache_dir(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
56 struct dentry *root)
57{
58 int ret;
59
60 ret = security_inode_mkdir(root->d_inode, root, 0);
61 if (ret < 0) {
62 printk(KERN_ERR "CacheFiles:"
63 " Security denies permission to make dirs: error %d",
64 ret);
65 return ret;
66 }
67
68 ret = security_inode_create(root->d_inode, root, 0);
69 if (ret < 0)
70 printk(KERN_ERR "CacheFiles:"
71 " Security denies permission to create files: error %d",
72 ret);
73
74 return ret;
75}
76
77/*
78 * check the security details of the on-disk cache
79 * - must be called with security override in force
80 */
81int cachefiles_determine_cache_security(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
82 struct dentry *root,
83 const struct cred **_saved_cred)
84{
85 struct cred *new;
86 int ret;
87
88 _enter("");
89
90 /* duplicate the cache creds for COW (the override is currently in
91 * force, so we can use prepare_creds() to do this) */
92 new = prepare_creds();
93 if (!new)
94 return -ENOMEM;
95
96 cachefiles_end_secure(cache, *_saved_cred);
97
98 /* use the cache root dir's security context as the basis with
99 * which create files */
100 ret = set_create_files_as(new, root->d_inode);
101 if (ret < 0) {
102 _leave(" = %d [cfa]", ret);
103 return ret;
104 }
105
106 put_cred(cache->cache_cred);
107 cache->cache_cred = new;
108
109 cachefiles_begin_secure(cache, _saved_cred);
110 ret = cachefiles_check_cache_dir(cache, root);
111
112 if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
113 ret = 0;
114 _leave(" = %d", ret);
115 return ret;
116}