[PATCH] setkeys needs root
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:02 +0000 (15:03 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:37:25 +0000 (17:37 -0800)
Because people can play games reprogramming keys and leaving traps for the
next user of the console.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c

index 1d44f69e1fda12bfb0abd092435d53ab04d9c610..003dda147cd093a226d52a485d7b98d64186874d 100644 (file)
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ do_kdgkb_ioctl(int cmd, struct kbsentry __user *user_kdgkb, int perm)
        int i, j, k;
        int ret;
 
+       if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG))
+               return -EPERM;
+
        kbs = kmalloc(sizeof(*kbs), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!kbs) {
                ret = -ENOMEM;