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authorPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>2009-10-13 11:28:18 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-10-22 15:11:56 -0700
commit127f1bdba584bc2aa2f910273b6b5701d5bad3ed (patch)
tree5b01469ab62faa07feb21008b9df35a5c587d0d6
parent85a79fc56eaee6587d19971b5348261773c1c507 (diff)
uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets
(cherry picked from commit 30efa3f76813b17445bc5a2e443ae9731518566b) Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/uvesafb.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index aa7cd959cced..e35232a18571 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static void uvesafb_cn_callback(struct cn_msg *msg, struct netlink_skb_parms *ns
struct uvesafb_task *utask;
struct uvesafb_ktask *task;
+ if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return;
+
if (msg->seq >= UVESAFB_TASKS_MAX)
return;