On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:26 PM Maciej Żenczykowski
<zenczykowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is a fix for a regression introduced in 5.8-rc1 by:
> commit 2c78ee898d8f10ae6fb2fa23a3fbaec96b1b7366
> 'bpf: Implement CAP_BPF'
>
> Before the above commit it was possible to load network bpf programs
> with just the CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege.
>
> The Android bpfloader happens to run in such a configuration (it has
> SYS_ADMIN but not NET_ADMIN) and creates maps and loads bpf programs
> for later use by Android's netd (which has NET_ADMIN but not SYS_ADMIN).
>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 2c78ee898d8f ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks so much for helping narrow this regression down and submitting this fix!
It's much appreciated!
Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
thanks
-john
