blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix
commitac793824b5235b7ca62a6f5fffc7840b7eae9795
authorChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:02:55 +0000 (10 18:02 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:27:21 +0000 (13 13:27 -0700)
treeb1e551ef7c5df8d34922c83b010ec616529d9772
parentf835fa449018b2ee7a09f846cac415240708d3e0
blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

commit b7300b78d1a87625975a799a109a2f98d77757c8 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/block_dev.c