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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 38e7d5868d60..9a2264fc42ca 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -274,7 +274,20 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file) char c; int error = 0; - error = security_syslog(type, from_file); + /* + * If this is from /proc/kmsg we only do the capabilities checks + * at open time. + */ + if (type == SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN || !from_file) { + if (dmesg_restrict && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + if ((type != SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL && + type != SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_BUFFER) && + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + } + + error = security_syslog(type); if (error) return error; |