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authorGuido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>2007-07-02 22:50:25 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-07-10 22:16:42 -0700
commit8c644623fe7e41f59fe97cdf666cba3cb7ced7d8 (patch)
tree42ed72e59e73b6ec840aa4ea97a34630f3544093 /drivers/net
parent0ba48053831d5b89ee2afaefaae1c06eae80cb05 (diff)
[NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.
Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to match. Signed-off-by: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tun.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index a2c6caaaae9..62b2b300501 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
init_waitqueue_head(&tun->read_wait);
tun->owner = -1;
+ tun->group = -1;
SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
dev->open = tun_net_open;
@@ -467,8 +468,11 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
return -EBUSY;
/* Check permissions */
- if (tun->owner != -1 &&
- current->euid != tun->owner && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ if (((tun->owner != -1 &&
+ current->euid != tun->owner) ||
+ (tun->group != -1 &&
+ current->egid != tun->group)) &&
+ !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
}
else if (__dev_get_by_name(ifr->ifr_name))
@@ -610,6 +614,13 @@ static int tun_chr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: owner set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, tun->owner);
break;
+ case TUNSETGROUP:
+ /* Set group of the device */
+ tun->group= (gid_t) arg;
+
+ DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: group set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, tun->group);
+ break;
+
case TUNSETLINK:
/* Only allow setting the type when the interface is down */
if (tun->dev->flags & IFF_UP) {