As the capabilites and capability bounding set are per user namespace properties it is safe to allow changing them with just CAP_SETPCAP permission in the user namespace. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> --- security/commoncap.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index c44b6fe..9fccf71 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ int cap_task_setnice(struct task_struct *p, int nice) */ static long cap_prctl_drop(struct cred *new, unsigned long cap) { - if (!capable(CAP_SETPCAP)) + if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SETPCAP)) return -EPERM; if (!cap_valid(cap)) return -EINVAL; -- 1.7.5.4 _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers