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[1/2] drm: Do not drop root privileges for a fancier younger process

Message ID 1383036958-20842-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Chris Wilson Oct. 29, 2013, 8:55 a.m. UTC
When a second process opens the device and master transferrence is
complete, we walk the list of open devices and remove their
authentication. This also revokes our root privilege. Instead of simply
dropping the authentication, this patch reverts the authenticated state
back to its original value.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c | 5 +++--
 include/drm/drmP.h         | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Herrmann Oct. 30, 2013, 7:22 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> When a second process opens the device and master transferrence is
> complete, we walk the list of open devices and remove their
> authentication. This also revokes our root privilege. Instead of simply
> dropping the authentication, this patch reverts the authenticated state
> back to its original value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c | 5 +++--
>  include/drm/drmP.h         | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
> index da1940ae9a2d..2f8b41c58d02 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
> @@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ static int drm_open_helper(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
>
>         priv->ioctl_count = 0;
>         /* for compatibility root is always authenticated */
> -       priv->authenticated = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> +       priv->always_authenticated = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> +       priv->authenticated = priv->always_authenticated;
>         priv->lock_count = 0;
>
>         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->lhead);
> @@ -523,7 +524,7 @@ int drm_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>                 list_for_each_entry(temp, &dev->filelist, lhead) {
>                         if ((temp->master == file_priv->master) &&
>                             (temp != file_priv))
> -                               temp->authenticated = 0;
> +                               temp->authenticated = temp->always_authenticated;
>                 }
>
>                 /**
> diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
> index 490534c990b7..3a90857bd0ee 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drmP.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
> @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ struct drm_prime_file_private {
>
>  /** File private data */
>  struct drm_file {
> +       int always_authenticated;
>         int authenticated;

I was going to say you can reuse "authenticated" here as it's an
"int". But your follow-up fixes this I think. Apart from that:
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

Please also tag this for stable via: Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Thanks
David

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>         kuid_t uid;
> --
> 1.8.4.rc3
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
index da1940ae9a2d..2f8b41c58d02 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@  static int drm_open_helper(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
 
 	priv->ioctl_count = 0;
 	/* for compatibility root is always authenticated */
-	priv->authenticated = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
+	priv->always_authenticated = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
+	priv->authenticated = priv->always_authenticated;
 	priv->lock_count = 0;
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->lhead);
@@ -523,7 +524,7 @@  int drm_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 		list_for_each_entry(temp, &dev->filelist, lhead) {
 			if ((temp->master == file_priv->master) &&
 			    (temp != file_priv))
-				temp->authenticated = 0;
+				temp->authenticated = temp->always_authenticated;
 		}
 
 		/**
diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
index 490534c990b7..3a90857bd0ee 100644
--- a/include/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@  struct drm_prime_file_private {
 
 /** File private data */
 struct drm_file {
+	int always_authenticated;
 	int authenticated;
 	struct pid *pid;
 	kuid_t uid;