Currently only DMESG and CONSOLE record types are protected, and it isn't
obvious that they are using a capability check. Instead switch to explicit
root directory mode of 0750 to keep files private by default. This will
allow the removal of the capability check, which was non-obvious and
forces a process to have possibly too much privilege when simple post-boot
chgrp for readers would be possible without it.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
fs/pstore/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index fefd22611cf6..f1e88b695090 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static int pstore_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void
*data, int silent)
inode = pstore_get_inode(sb);
if (inode) {
- inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755;
+ inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0750;
inode->i_op = &pstore_dir_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
inc_nlink(inode);
--
2.7.4
