linux/net/phonet
Dan Rosenberg 71338aa7d0 net: convert %p usage to %pK
The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces.  Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers.  The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.

If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs.  If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
 If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges.  Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".

The supporting code for kptr_restrict and %pK are currently in the -mm
tree.  This patch converts users of %p in net/ to %pK.  Cases of printing
pointers to the syslog are not covered, since this would eliminate useful
information for postmortem debugging and the reading of the syslog is
already optionally protected by the dmesg_restrict sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
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Kconfig Phonet: kill the ST-Ericsson pipe controller Kconfig 2011-03-09 11:59:33 -08:00
Makefile Net: phonet: Makefile: Remove deprecated kbuild goal definitions 2010-11-22 08:16:14 -08:00
af_phonet.c Phonet: return an error when packet TX fails 2011-03-09 11:59:30 -08:00
datagram.c Phonet: hook resource routing to userspace via ioctl()'s 2010-09-15 21:31:32 -07:00
pep-gprs.c Phonet: zero-copy aligned GPRS RX 2010-01-07 00:24:54 -08:00
pep.c Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve 2011-03-15 14:55:49 -07:00
pn_dev.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
pn_netlink.c net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks 2011-05-02 15:26:28 -07:00
socket.c net: convert %p usage to %pK 2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
sysctl.c sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code 2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00