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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-10-04 22:57:00 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-10-04 22:57:51 +0200
commitc37d6154c0b9163c27e53cc1d0be3867b4abd760 (patch)
tree7a24522c56d1cb284dff1d3c225bbdaba0901bb5 /security/device_cgroup.c
parente7a570ff7dff9af6e54ff5e580a61ec7652137a0 (diff)
parent8a1ab3155c2ac7fbe5f2038d6e26efeb607a1498 (diff)
Merge branch 'disintegrate-asm-generic' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers into asm-generic
Patches from David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>: This is to complete part of the UAPI disintegration for which the preparatory patches were pulled recently. Note that there are some fixup patches which are at the base of the branch aimed at you, plus all arches get the asm-generic branch merged in too. * 'disintegrate-asm-generic' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers: UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic UAPI: Fix conditional header installation handling (notably kvm_para.h on m68k) c6x: remove c6x signal.h UAPI: Split compound conditionals containing __KERNEL__ in Arm64 UAPI: Fix the guards on various asm/unistd.h files Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/device_cgroup.c')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index 442204cc22d..4b877a92a7e 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -457,6 +457,15 @@ struct cgroup_subsys devices_subsys = {
.destroy = devcgroup_destroy,
.subsys_id = devices_subsys_id,
.base_cftypes = dev_cgroup_files,
+
+ /*
+ * While devices cgroup has the rudimentary hierarchy support which
+ * checks the parent's restriction, it doesn't properly propagates
+ * config changes in ancestors to their descendents. A child
+ * should only be allowed to add more restrictions to the parent's
+ * configuration. Fix it and remove the following.
+ */
+ .broken_hierarchy = true,
};
int __devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)