security: prevent permission checking of file removal via sysfs_remove_group()
Prevent permission checking from being performed when the kernel wants to
unconditionally remove a sysfs group, by introducing an kernel-only variant
of lookup_one_len(), lookup_one_len_kern().
Additionally, as sysfs_remove_group() does not check the return value of
the lookup before using it, a BUG_ON has been added to pinpoint the cause
of any problems potentially caused by this (and as a form of annotation).
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index d39a5a6..b7dd249 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
extern void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *);
extern struct dentry * lookup_one_len(const char *, struct dentry *, int);
+extern struct dentry *lookup_one_len_kern(const char *, struct dentry *, int);
extern int follow_down(struct vfsmount **, struct dentry **);
extern int follow_up(struct vfsmount **, struct dentry **);