From a417016d1a07e6df0621dbb2926da82642eca823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Tourrilhes Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:53:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] wext: Fix IWENCODEEXT security permissions Check the permissions when user-space try to read the encryption parameters via SIOCGIWENCODEEXT. This is trivial and probably should go in 2.6.17... Bug was found by Brian Eaton , thanks ! Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/core/dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 83231a27ae02..3bad1afc89fa 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -2698,7 +2698,8 @@ int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg) /* If command is `set a parameter', or * `get the encoding parameters', check if * the user has the right to do it */ - if (IW_IS_SET(cmd) || cmd == SIOCGIWENCODE) { + if (IW_IS_SET(cmd) || cmd == SIOCGIWENCODE + || cmd == SIOCGIWENCODEEXT) { if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; } -- 2.30.2