Commit 1b3aa7af authored by Alan Cox's avatar Alan Cox Committed by Jeff Garzik

cxgb3: Use CAP_SYS_RAWIO for firmware

Otherwise theoretically at least

	CAP_NET_ADMIN
	Reload new firmware
	Wait..
	Firmware patches kernel

So it should be CAY_SYS_RAWIO - not that I suspect this is in fact a
credible attack vector!
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
parent 01935d7d
......@@ -1894,11 +1894,11 @@ static int cxgb_extension_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
u8 *fw_data;
struct ch_mem_range t;
if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EPERM;
if (copy_from_user(&t, useraddr, sizeof(t)))
return -EFAULT;
/* Check t.len sanity ? */
fw_data = kmalloc(t.len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fw_data)
return -ENOMEM;
......
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