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Commit 855b7717 authored by Kanchan Joshi's avatar Kanchan Joshi Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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nvme: fine-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN for nvme io commands



Currently both io and admin commands are kept under a
coarse-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN check, disregarding file mode completely.

$ ls -l /dev/ng*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 242, 0 Sep  9 19:20 /dev/ng0n1
crw------- 1 root root 242, 1 Sep  9 19:20 /dev/ng0n2

In the example above, ng0n1 appears as if it may allow unprivileged
read/write operation but it does not and behaves same as ng0n2.

This patch implements a shift from CAP_SYS_ADMIN to more fine-granular
control for io-commands.
If CAP_SYS_ADMIN is present, nothing else is checked as before.
Otherwise, following rules are in place
- any admin-cmd is not allowed
- vendor-specific and fabric commmand are not allowed
- io-commands that can write are allowed if matching FMODE_WRITE
permission is present
- io-commands that read are allowed

Add a helper nvme_cmd_allowed that implements above policy.
Change all the callers of CAP_SYS_ADMIN to go through nvme_cmd_allowed
for any decision making.
Since file open mode is counted for any approval/denial, change at
various places to keep file-mode information handy.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKeith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent cf3d0084
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