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blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix
authorChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:02:55 +0000 (18:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:59:18 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
commitb7300b78d1a87625975a799a109a2f98d77757c8
tree8cf263c09daf725ee701b0acd7ad700c530a5f08
parente400c28524af2d344b1663b27bf28984fa959a0e
blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant
permission to a disk partition that is not currently open.  Part of
blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.

Basically, the only ways to reliably allow a cgroup access to a partition
on a block device when using the whitelist are to 1) also give it access
to the whole block device or 2) make sure the partition is already open in
a different context.

The patch avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a
partition.

Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/block_dev.c