From: Alan Cox On the SCSI layer ioctl path there is no implicit permissions check for ioctls (and indeed other drivers implement unprivileged ioctls). aacraid however allows all sorts of very admin only things to be done so should check. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c @@ -597,6 +597,8 @@ static int aac_cfg_open(struct inode *in static int aac_cfg_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; return aac_do_ioctl(file->private_data, cmd, (void __user *)arg); } @@ -650,6 +652,8 @@ static int aac_compat_ioctl(struct scsi_ static long aac_compat_cfg_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg) { + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; return aac_compat_do_ioctl((struct aac_dev *)file->private_data, cmd, arg); } #endif -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/