fs: Enable link security restrictions by default
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 2 Nov 2012 05:32:06 +0000 (05:32 +0000)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:31:07 +0000 (08:31 +0000)
This reverts commit 561ec64ae67ef25cac8d72bb9c4bfc955edfd415
('VFS: don't do protected {sym,hard}links by default').

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name fs-enable-link-security-restrictions-by-default.patch

fs/namei.c

index 4e3fc58dae7227fbb24ce97b1d4404df31ec9445..bc8c6b7690e2914a01dfed768bc8fbb6f70b05d2 100644 (file)
@@ -900,8 +900,8 @@ static inline void put_link(struct nameidata *nd)
                path_put(&last->link);
 }
 
-int sysctl_protected_symlinks __read_mostly = 0;
-int sysctl_protected_hardlinks __read_mostly = 0;
+int sysctl_protected_symlinks __read_mostly = 1;
+int sysctl_protected_hardlinks __read_mostly = 1;
 
 /**
  * may_follow_link - Check symlink following for unsafe situations