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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-02 02:20:32 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-02 02:20:35 -0400
commitf14eff1cc2f418a7c5e23aedc6a1bdca3343b871 (patch)
treefd8d5f7ed2b2e94eff4007e8da0e9ed205d8d5c9 /security/commoncap.c
parent84e9dabf6e6a78928c6a1a8ba235c9fb0908d0f8 (diff)
parent326ba5010a5429a5a528b268b36a5900d4ab0eba (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into sched/core
Merge reason: bump from rc5 to rc8, but also pick up TP_perf_assign() API, a patch will be queued that depends on it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 48b7e0228fa3..e3097c0a1311 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -984,3 +984,33 @@ int cap_vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages)
984 cap_sys_admin = 1; 984 cap_sys_admin = 1;
985 return __vm_enough_memory(mm, pages, cap_sys_admin); 985 return __vm_enough_memory(mm, pages, cap_sys_admin);
986} 986}
987
988/*
989 * cap_file_mmap - check if able to map given addr
990 * @file: unused
991 * @reqprot: unused
992 * @prot: unused
993 * @flags: unused
994 * @addr: address attempting to be mapped
995 * @addr_only: unused
996 *
997 * If the process is attempting to map memory below mmap_min_addr they need
998 * CAP_SYS_RAWIO. The other parameters to this function are unused by the
999 * capability security module. Returns 0 if this mapping should be allowed
1000 * -EPERM if not.
1001 */
1002int cap_file_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long reqprot,
1003 unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
1004 unsigned long addr, unsigned long addr_only)
1005{
1006 int ret = 0;
1007
1008 if (addr < dac_mmap_min_addr) {
1009 ret = cap_capable(current, current_cred(), CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
1010 SECURITY_CAP_AUDIT);
1011 /* set PF_SUPERPRIV if it turns out we allow the low mmap */
1012 if (ret == 0)
1013 current->flags |= PF_SUPERPRIV;
1014 }
1015 return ret;
1016}