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[v2,2/4] PCI/sysfs: Check CAP_SYS_ADMIN before parsing user input

Message ID 20210706010622.3058968-2-kw@linux.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Bjorn Helgaas
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Series [v2,1/4] PCI/sysfs: Move to kstrtobool() to handle user input | expand

Commit Message

Krzysztof Wilczyński July 6, 2021, 1:06 a.m. UTC
Check if the "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" capability flag is set before parsing user
input as it makes more sense to first check whether the current user
actually has the right permissions before accepting any input from such
user.

This will also make order in which enable_store() and msi_bus_store()
perform the "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" capability check consistent with other
PCI-related sysfs objects that first verify whether user has this
capability set.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@linux.com>
---
 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index 0f98c4843764..bc4c141e4c1c 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -275,13 +275,13 @@  static ssize_t enable_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
 	ssize_t result = 0;
 
-	if (kstrtobool(buf, &enable) < 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	/* this can crash the machine when done on the "wrong" device */
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	if (kstrtobool(buf, &enable) < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	device_lock(dev);
 	if (dev->driver)
 		result = -EBUSY;
@@ -377,12 +377,12 @@  static ssize_t msi_bus_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
 	struct pci_bus *subordinate = pdev->subordinate;
 
-	if (kstrtobool(buf, &enable) < 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	if (kstrtobool(buf, &enable) < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	/*
 	 * "no_msi" and "bus_flags" only affect what happens when a driver
 	 * requests MSI or MSI-X.  They don't affect any drivers that have