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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>2011-03-23 16:43:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-23 19:47:06 -0700
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userns: make has_capability* into real functions
So we can let type safety keep things sane, and as a bonus we can remove the declaration of init_user_ns in capability.h. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index 0a3d2c863a1c..bf0c734d0c12 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -291,6 +291,60 @@ error:
}
/**
+ * has_capability - Does a task have a capability in init_user_ns
+ * @t: The task in question
+ * @cap: The capability to be tested for
+ *
+ * Return true if the specified task has the given superior capability
+ * currently in effect to the initial user namespace, false if not.
+ *
+ * Note that this does not set PF_SUPERPRIV on the task.
+ */
+bool has_capability(struct task_struct *t, int cap)
+{
+ int ret = security_real_capable(t, &init_user_ns, cap);
+
+ return (ret == 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * has_capability - Does a task have a capability in a specific user ns
+ * @t: The task in question
+ * @ns: target user namespace
+ * @cap: The capability to be tested for
+ *
+ * Return true if the specified task has the given superior capability
+ * currently in effect to the specified user namespace, false if not.
+ *
+ * Note that this does not set PF_SUPERPRIV on the task.
+ */
+bool has_ns_capability(struct task_struct *t,
+ struct user_namespace *ns, int cap)
+{
+ int ret = security_real_capable(t, ns, cap);
+
+ return (ret == 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * has_capability_noaudit - Does a task have a capability (unaudited)
+ * @t: The task in question
+ * @cap: The capability to be tested for
+ *
+ * Return true if the specified task has the given superior capability
+ * currently in effect to init_user_ns, false if not. Don't write an
+ * audit message for the check.
+ *
+ * Note that this does not set PF_SUPERPRIV on the task.
+ */
+bool has_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, int cap)
+{
+ int ret = security_real_capable_noaudit(t, &init_user_ns, cap);
+
+ return (ret == 0);
+}
+
+/**
* capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect
* @cap: The capability to be tested for
*