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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-12-11 18:00:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-01-19 12:59:45 +0100 |
| commit | 377e7a27c049d6df9c1804454904e438ed12f1a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d954cde851170e98fea196869de609815306410 /security | |
| parent | 6d2c5d6c46dd3d9924831efd6c913fdf4d484985 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-377e7a27c049d6df9c1804454904e438ed12f1a4.tar.gz lwn-377e7a27c049d6df9c1804454904e438ed12f1a4.zip | |
Make static usermode helper binaries constant
There are a number of usermode helper binaries that are "hard coded" in
the kernel today, so mark them as "const" to make it harder for someone
to change where the variables point to.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/keys/request_key.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c index 43affcf10b22..9822e500d50d 100644 --- a/security/keys/request_key.c +++ b/security/keys/request_key.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void umh_keys_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info) /* * Call a usermode helper with a specific session keyring. */ -static int call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, +static int call_usermodehelper_keys(const char *path, char **argv, char **envp, struct key *session_keyring, int wait) { struct subprocess_info *info; @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons, const char *op, void *aux) { + static char const request_key[] = "/sbin/request-key"; const struct cred *cred = current_cred(); key_serial_t prkey, sskey; struct key *key = cons->key, *authkey = cons->authkey, *keyring, @@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons, /* set up the argument list */ i = 0; - argv[i++] = "/sbin/request-key"; + argv[i++] = (char *)request_key; argv[i++] = (char *) op; argv[i++] = key_str; argv[i++] = uid_str; @@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ static int call_sbin_request_key(struct key_construction *cons, argv[i] = NULL; /* do it */ - ret = call_usermodehelper_keys(argv[0], argv, envp, keyring, + ret = call_usermodehelper_keys(request_key, argv, envp, keyring, UMH_WAIT_PROC); kdebug("usermode -> 0x%x", ret); if (ret >= 0) { |