[NET]: Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices.
authorGuido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:50:25 +0000 (22:50 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:16:42 +0000 (22:16 -0700)
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>
drivers/net/tun.c
include/linux/if_tun.h

index a2c6caa..62b2b30 100644 (file)
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
        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 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct file *file, struct ifreq *ifr)
                        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 @@ static int tun_chr_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
                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) {
index 88aef7b..42eb694 100644 (file)
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
        unsigned long           flags;
        int                     attached;
        uid_t                   owner;
+       gid_t                   group;
 
        wait_queue_head_t       read_wait;
        struct sk_buff_head     readq;
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ struct tun_struct {
 #define TUNSETPERSIST _IOW('T', 203, int) 
 #define TUNSETOWNER   _IOW('T', 204, int)
 #define TUNSETLINK    _IOW('T', 205, int)
+#define TUNSETGROUP   _IOW('T', 206, int)
 
 /* TUNSETIFF ifr flags */
 #define IFF_TUN                0x0001