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. Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <izh1979@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/capability.h | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h index 1b98725..eae98b1 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) \ @@ -392,7 +406,9 @@ 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_FS_MASK_B1 } }) -- 1.5.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
