Make TASKSTATS require root access

commit 1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 upstream.

Ok, this isn't optimal, since it means that 'iotop' needs admin
capabilities, and we may have to work on this some more.  But at the
same time it is very much not acceptable to let anybody just read
anybody elses IO statistics quite at this level.

Use of the GENL_ADMIN_PERM suggested by Johannes Berg as an alternative
to checking the capabilities by hand.

Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index b080920409c6805839d4d44f3efbb97fda226643..a4ef5426ca60eb6fbf9206cb4b15c891b0188862 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ static struct genl_ops taskstats_ops = {
        .cmd            = TASKSTATS_CMD_GET,
        .doit           = taskstats_user_cmd,
        .policy         = taskstats_cmd_get_policy,
+       .flags          = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
 };
 
 static struct genl_ops cgroupstats_ops = {