linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/16] staging: fwserial: fix TIOCSSERIAL permission check

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Message-Id: <20210407102334.32361-3-johan@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed,  7 Apr 2021 12:23:20 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/16] staging: fwserial: fix TIOCSSERIAL permission check

Changing the port close-delay parameter is a privileged operation so
make sure to return -EPERM if a regular user tries to change it.

Fixes: 7355ba3445f2 ("staging: fwserial: Add TTY-over-Firewire serial driver")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org      # 3.8
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c b/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
index c963848522b1..440d11423812 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
@@ -1232,20 +1232,24 @@ static int set_serial_info(struct tty_struct *tty,
 			   struct serial_struct *ss)
 {
 	struct fwtty_port *port = tty->driver_data;
+	unsigned int cdelay;
 
 	if (ss->irq != 0 || ss->port != 0 || ss->custom_divisor != 0 ||
 	    ss->baud_base != 400000000)
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	cdelay = msecs_to_jiffies(ss->close_delay * 10);
+
 	mutex_lock(&port->port.mutex);
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
-		if (((ss->flags & ~ASYNC_USR_MASK) !=
+		if (cdelay != port->port.close_delay ||
+		    ((ss->flags & ~ASYNC_USR_MASK) !=
 		     (port->port.flags & ~ASYNC_USR_MASK))) {
 			mutex_unlock(&port->port.mutex);
 			return -EPERM;
 		}
 	}
-	port->port.close_delay = msecs_to_jiffies(ss->close_delay * 10);
+	port->port.close_delay = cdelay;
 	mutex_unlock(&port->port.mutex);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.26.3