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tun: fix group permission check
authorStas Sergeev <stsp2@yandex.ru>
Thu, 5 Dec 2024 07:36:14 +0000 (10:36 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:50:18 +0000 (12:50 +0100)
commit9b560350aa7bfaa1cc812d069cd6cff322c534f9
treee8240b5c9653d875a1e1bdcf493d5c3a4a447e58
parentecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749a
tun: fix group permission check

[ Upstream commit 3ca459eaba1bf96a8c7878de84fa8872259a01e3 ]

Currently tun checks the group permission even if the user have matched.
Besides going against the usual permission semantic, this has a
very interesting implication: if the tun group is not among the
supplementary groups of the tun user, then effectively no one can
access the tun device. CAP_SYS_ADMIN still can, but its the same as
not setting the tun ownership.

This patch relaxes the group checking so that either the user match
or the group match is enough. This avoids the situation when no one
can access the device even though the ownership is properly set.

Also I simplified the logic by removing the redundant inversions:
tun_not_capable() --> !tun_capable()

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp2@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241205073614.294773-1-stsp2@yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/tun.c