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[v3,for-4.4,4/7] Tools: hv: kvp: ensure kvp device fd is closed on exec

Message ID 1492673923-1352-5-git-send-email-sumit.semwal@linaro.org
State New
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Series hv patches for 4.4.y (resubmit) | expand

Commit Message

Sumit Semwal April 20, 2017, 7:38 a.m. UTC 
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>


[ Upstream commit 26840437cbd6d3625ea6ab34e17cd34bb810c861 ]

KVP daemon does fork()/exec() (with popen()) so we need to close our fds
to avoid sharing them with child processes. The immediate implication of
not doing so I see is SELinux complaining about 'ip' trying to access
'/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp'.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>

---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 0d9f48e..bc7adb8 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	openlog("KVP", 0, LOG_USER);
 	syslog(LOG_INFO, "KVP starting; pid is:%d", getpid());
 
-	kvp_fd = open("/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp", O_RDWR);
+	kvp_fd = open("/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
 
 	if (kvp_fd < 0) {
 		syslog(LOG_ERR, "open /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp failed; error: %d %s",