[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4813f022b03a14429c5c03fad92bffd0db67c5af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:11:06 +0300
Subject: aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl

commit f856567b930dfcdbc3323261bf77240ccdde01f5 upstream.

In commit d496f94d22d1 ('[SCSI] aacraid: fix security weakness') we
added a check on CAP_SYS_RAWIO to the ioctl.  The compat ioctls need the
check as well.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
index 408a42e..f0d432c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c
@@ -771,6 +771,8 @@ static long aac_compat_do_ioctl(struct aac_dev *dev, unsigned cmd, unsigned long
 static int aac_compat_ioctl(struct scsi_device *sdev, int cmd, void __user *arg)
 {
 	struct aac_dev *dev = (struct aac_dev *)sdev->host->hostdata;
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
+		return -EPERM;
 	return aac_compat_do_ioctl(dev, cmd, (unsigned long)arg);
 }

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