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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>2009-04-13 09:56:14 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-13 08:32:28 -0700
commit0ad30b8fd5fe798aae80df6344b415d8309342cc (patch)
treea62ffb310ab370df11a8fe2ba2995e952b6522be /include
parentd3ab02a7c51fcbceafe999a515cc8bc4f0d0cfee (diff)
add some long-missing capabilities to fs_mask
When POSIX capabilities were introduced during the 2.1 Linux cycle, the fs mask, which represents the capabilities which having fsuid==0 is supposed to grant, did not include CAP_MKNOD and CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE. However, before capabilities the privilege to call these did in fact depend upon fsuid==0. This patch introduces those capabilities into the fsmask, restoring the old behavior. See the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/157 for reference. Note that if this fix is deemed valid, then earlier kernel versions (2.4 and 2.2) ought to be fixed too. Changelog: [Mar 23] Actually delete old CAP_FS_SET definition... [Mar 20] Updated against J. Bruce Fields's patch Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/capability.h23
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
index 4864a43b2b45..c3021105edc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -377,7 +377,21 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
#define CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) \
for (__capi = 0; __capi < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S; ++__capi)
+/*
+ * CAP_FS_MASK and CAP_NFSD_MASKS:
+ *
+ * The fs mask is all the privileges that fsuid==0 historically meant.
+ * At one time in the past, that included CAP_MKNOD and CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE.
+ *
+ * It has never meant setting security.* and trusted.* xattrs.
+ *
+ * We could also define fsmask as follows:
+ * 1. CAP_FS_MASK is the privilege to bypass all fs-related DAC permissions
+ * 2. The security.* and trusted.* xattrs are fs-related MAC permissions
+ */
+
# define CAP_FS_MASK_B0 (CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_CHOWN) \
+ | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_MKNOD) \
| CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE) \
| CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH) \
| CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_FOWNER) \
@@ -392,11 +406,12 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
# define CAP_EMPTY_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ 0, 0 }})
# define CAP_FULL_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ ~0, ~0 }})
# define CAP_INIT_EFF_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ ~CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SETPCAP), ~0 }})
-# define CAP_FS_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ CAP_FS_MASK_B0, CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } })
+# define CAP_FS_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ CAP_FS_MASK_B0 \
+ | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE), \
+ CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } })
# define CAP_NFSD_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ CAP_FS_MASK_B0 \
- | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) \
- | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_MKNOD), \
- CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } })
+ | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE), \
+ CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } })
#endif /* _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 */