capability: Add new capable_noaudit

In some situations (quota enforcement bypass in this case) we'd like to
check for a specific capability without triggering spurious audit
messages from security modules like selinux.

Add a new helper so we don't need to use ns_capable_noaudit() directly.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index 829f49ae07b9..f4a7f1963c9d 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -416,6 +416,24 @@ bool capable(int cap)
 	return ns_capable(&init_user_ns, cap);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable);
+
+/**
+ * capable_noaudit - Determine if the current task has a superior
+ * capability in effect by checking the process's effective
+ * capabilities (unaudited).
+ * @cap: The capability to be tested for
+ *
+ * This is the same as capable(), except it uses CAP_OPT_NOAUDIT as to prevent
+ * issuing spurious audit messages.
+ *
+ * This sets PF_SUPERPRIV on the task if the capability is available on the
+ * assumption that it's about to be used.
+ */
+bool capable_noaudit(int cap)
+{
+	return ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, cap);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable_noaudit);
 #endif /* CONFIG_MULTIUSER */
 
 /**