Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] net: sysctl: No need to check CAP_SYS_ADMIN for bpf_jit_*

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On 5/9/22 8:57 AM, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
The mode of the following procnames are defined as 0644, 0600, 0600
and 0600 respectively in net_core_table[], normal user can not write
them, so no need to check CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the related proc_handler
function, just remove the checks.

/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden
/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_kallsyms
/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_limit

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think we can make this assumption - there are various other (non-BPF)
sysctl handlers in the tree doing similar check to prevent from userns' based
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

---
  net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 9 ---------
  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
index cf00dd7..059352b 100644
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -268,9 +268,6 @@ static int proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_enable(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
  	int ret, jit_enable = *(int *)table->data;
  	struct ctl_table tmp = *table;
- if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return -EPERM;
-
  	tmp.data = &jit_enable;
  	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
  	if (write && !ret) {
@@ -291,9 +288,6 @@ static int
  proc_dointvec_minmax_bpf_restricted(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
  				    void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  {
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return -EPERM;
-
  	return proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
  }
  # endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT */
@@ -302,9 +296,6 @@ static int
  proc_dolongvec_minmax_bpf_restricted(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
  				     void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  {
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return -EPERM;
-
  	return proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
  }
  #endif





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