[PATCH] shmctl SHM_LOCK perms
Michael Kerrisk has observed that at present any process can SHM_LOCK any shm segment of size within process RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, despite having no permissions on the segment: surprising, though not obviously evil. And any process can SHM_UNLOCK any shm segment, despite no permissions on it: that is surely wrong. Unless CAP_IPC_LOCK, restrict both SHM_LOCK and SHM_UNLOCK to when the process euid matches the shm owner or creator: that seems the least surprising behaviour, which could be relaxed if a need appears later. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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