linux/include
Paolo Bonzini 8bd8442fec block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
commit 0bfc96cb77 upstream.

[ Changes with respect to 3.3: return -ENOTTY from scsi_verify_blk_ioctl
  and -ENOIOCTLCMD from sd_compat_ioctl. ]

Linux allows executing the SG_IO ioctl on a partition or LVM volume, and
will pass the command to the underlying block device.  This is
well-known, but it is also a large security problem when (via Unix
permissions, ACLs, SELinux or a combination thereof) a program or user
needs to be granted access only to part of the disk.

This patch lets partitions forward a small set of harmless ioctls;
others are logged with printk so that we can see which ioctls are
actually sent.  In my tests only CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY actually occurred.
Of course it was being sent to a (partition on a) hard disk, so it would
have failed with ENOTTY and the patch isn't changing anything in
practice.  Still, I'm treating it specially to avoid spamming the logs.

In principle, this restriction should include programs running with
CAP_SYS_RAWIO.  If for example I let a program access /dev/sda2 and
/dev/sdb, it still should not be able to read/write outside the
boundaries of /dev/sda2 independent of the capabilities.  However, for
now programs with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will still be allowed to send the
ioctls.  Their actions will still be logged.

This patch does not affect the non-libata IDE driver.  That driver
however already tests for bd != bd->bd_contains before issuing some
ioctl; it could be restricted further to forbid these ioctls even for
programs running with CAP_SYS_ADMIN/CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[ Make it also print the command name when warning - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-25 17:24:54 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'd3cold', 'bugzilla-37412' and 'bugzilla-38152' into release 2011-07-14 00:16:38 -04:00
asm-generic Merge branches 'gpio/merge' and 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-06-17 10:36:32 -07:00
crypto
drm drm/radeon/kms: add some new pci ids 2011-12-21 12:57:45 -08:00
keys
linux block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices 2012-01-25 17:24:54 -08:00
math-emu
media [media] tuner-core/v4l2-subdev: document that the type field has to be filled in 2011-07-07 15:04:23 -03:00
mtd
net sctp: fix incorrect overflow check on autoclose 2012-01-06 14:14:08 -08:00
pcmcia pcmcia: Make declaration and uses of struct pcmcia_device_id const 2011-05-06 07:46:15 +02:00
rdma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-05-26 12:13:57 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] libsas: Add option for SATA soft reset 2011-05-26 22:49:33 -05:00
sound ALSA: sb16 - Fix build errors on MIPS and others with 13bit ioctl size 2011-06-30 15:33:57 +02:00
target [SCSI] target: Convert REPORT_LUNs to use int_to_scsilun 2011-05-24 13:02:42 -04:00
trace Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2011-06-21 10:22:35 -07:00
video Merge branches 'common/fbdev' and 'common/fbdev-meram' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2011-05-24 15:49:57 +09:00
xen xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX. 2012-01-25 17:24:41 -08:00
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