sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root
When reading from/writing to some table, a root, which this table came from,
may affect this table's permissions, depending on who is working with the
table.
The core hunk is at the bottom of this patch. All the rest is just pushing
the ctl_table_root argument up to the sysctl_perm() function.
This will be mostly (only?) used in the net sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 5e31585..5acc001 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
* and won't be until we finish.
*/
error = -EPERM;
- if (sysctl_perm(table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ))
+ if (sysctl_perm(head->root, table, write ? MAY_WRITE : MAY_READ))
goto out;
/* careful: calling conventions are nasty here */
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
goto out;
/* Use the permissions on the sysctl table entry */
- error = sysctl_perm(table, mask);
+ error = sysctl_perm(head->root, table, mask);
out:
sysctl_head_finish(head);
return error;