From 19521ba99205e89e9e71027929d6aee5abe26c2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Vander Stoep Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:26:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: reorder can_do_mlock to fix audit denial A userspace call to mmap(MAP_LOCKED) may result in the successful locking of memory while also producing a confusing audit log denial. can_do_mlock checks capable and rlimit. If either of these return positive can_do_mlock returns true. The capable check leads to an LSM hook used by apparmour and selinux which produce the audit denial. Reordering so rlimit is checked first eliminates the denial on success, only recording a denial when the lock is unsuccessful as a result of the denial. Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep Acked-by: Nick Kralevich Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Paul Cassella Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mlock.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index 73cf0987088c3..8a54cd2149258 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ int can_do_mlock(void) { - if (capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) - return 1; if (rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) != 0) return 1; + if (capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) + return 1; return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(can_do_mlock); -- 2.39.5