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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Fernandez <sfernand@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:32:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49bql48aus.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
Hi,
Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device
file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings.
However, the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying
a raw device with minor number 0:
$ sudo ./raw /dev/raw/raw0 /dev/VolGroup00/swap
/dev/raw/raw0: bound to major 253, minor 2
$ ls -l /dev/rawctl
ls: /dev/rawctl: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /dev/raw/raw0
crw------- 1 root root 162, 0 Jan 12 10:51 /dev/raw/raw0
$ sudo ./raw -qa
Cannot open master raw device '/dev/rawctl' (No such file or directory)
As you can see, this prevents any further raw operations from
succeeding. The fix (from Steve Fernandez) is quite simple--do not
allow the allocation of minor number 0.
Thanks!
Jeff
diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c
index 645e20a..1f0d7c6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/char/raw.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static int raw_ctl_ioctl(struct inode *i
goto out;
}
- if (rq.raw_minor < 0 || rq.raw_minor >= MAX_RAW_MINORS) {
+ if (rq.raw_minor <= 0 || rq.raw_minor >= MAX_RAW_MINORS) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-12 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-12 16:32 Jeff Moyer [this message]
2007-01-12 22:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-12 22:58 ` jmoyer
2007-01-28 20:23 ` Dave Jones
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2007-01-30 15:52 ` Bodo Eggert
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