[NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.
Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap
devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or
his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g
respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to
match.
Signed-off-by: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index a2c6caa..62b2b30 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@
init_waitqueue_head(&tun->read_wait);
tun->owner = -1;
+ tun->group = -1;
SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
dev->open = tun_net_open;
@@ -467,8 +468,11 @@
return -EBUSY;
/* Check permissions */
- if (tun->owner != -1 &&
- current->euid != tun->owner && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ if (((tun->owner != -1 &&
+ current->euid != tun->owner) ||
+ (tun->group != -1 &&
+ current->egid != tun->group)) &&
+ !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
}
else if (__dev_get_by_name(ifr->ifr_name))
@@ -610,6 +614,13 @@
DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: owner set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, tun->owner);
break;
+ case TUNSETGROUP:
+ /* Set group of the device */
+ tun->group= (gid_t) arg;
+
+ DBG(KERN_INFO "%s: group set to %d\n", tun->dev->name, tun->group);
+ break;
+
case TUNSETLINK:
/* Only allow setting the type when the interface is down */
if (tun->dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
