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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> | 2014-06-10 12:45:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-10 13:57:22 -0700 |
| commit | 23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03 (patch) | |
| tree | 000f8f8b3172aa6629b7c9a4148a96549a07acb6 /include/linux/capability.h | |
| parent | 5b174fd6472b1d6b6402b30210a212f3fd770d96 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03.tar.gz lwn-23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03.zip | |
fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid
The kernel has no concept of capabilities with respect to inodes; inodes
exist independently of namespaces. For example, inode_capable(inode,
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE) would be nonsense.
This patch changes inode_capable to check for uid and gid mappings and
renames it to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid, which should make it more
obvious what it does.
Fixes CVE-2014-4014.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/capability.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/capability.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h index a6ee1f9a5018..84b13ad67c1c 100644 --- a/include/linux/capability.h +++ b/include/linux/capability.h @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ extern bool has_ns_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap); extern bool capable(int cap); extern bool ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap); -extern bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap); +extern bool capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(const struct inode *inode, int cap); extern bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap); /* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */ |