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blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

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The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant
permission to a disk partition that is not currently open.  Part of
blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.

Basically, the only ways to reliably allow a cgroup access to a partition
on a block device when using the whitelist are to 1) also give it access
to the whole block device or 2) make sure the partition is already open in
a different context.

The patch avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a
partition.

Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chris Wright 2010-08-10 18:02:55 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e400c28524
commit b7300b78d1
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -1340,10 +1340,12 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
/*
* hooks: /n/, see "layering violations".
*/
ret = devcgroup_inode_permission(bdev->bd_inode, perm);
if (ret != 0) {
bdput(bdev);
return ret;
if (!for_part) {
ret = devcgroup_inode_permission(bdev->bd_inode, perm);
if (ret != 0) {
bdput(bdev);
return ret;
}
}
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