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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/vt/selection.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c index 564341f1a74f..0bd6544e30a6 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c @@ -192,6 +192,20 @@ int set_selection_user(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, if (copy_from_user(&v, sel, sizeof(*sel))) return -EFAULT; + /* + * TIOCL_SELCLEAR, TIOCL_SELPOINTER and TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT are OK to + * use without CAP_SYS_ADMIN as they do not modify the selection. + */ + switch (v.sel_mode) { + case TIOCL_SELCLEAR: + case TIOCL_SELPOINTER: + case TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT: + break; + default: + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + } + return set_selection_kernel(&v, tty); } |