The patch titled file capabilities: honor !SECURE_NOROOT has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was file-capabilities-honor-secure_noroot.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: file capabilities: honor !SECURE_NOROOT From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> When the SECURE_NOROOT securebit is not set, allow root to keep it's capabilities over exec, rather than compute the capabilities based on file capabilities. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- security/commoncap.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN security/commoncap.c~file-capabilities-honor-secure_noroot security/commoncap.c --- a/security/commoncap.c~file-capabilities-honor-secure_noroot +++ a/security/commoncap.c @@ -202,12 +202,16 @@ static inline int set_file_caps(struct l int cap_bprm_set_security (struct linux_binprm *bprm) { + int ret; + /* Copied from fs/exec.c:prepare_binprm. */ cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable); cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted); cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective); + ret = set_file_caps(bprm); + /* To support inheritance of root-permissions and suid-root * executables under compatibility mode, we raise all three * capability sets for the file. @@ -225,7 +229,7 @@ int cap_bprm_set_security (struct linux_ cap_set_full (bprm->cap_effective); } - return set_file_caps(bprm); + return ret; } void cap_bprm_apply_creds (struct linux_binprm *bprm, int unsafe) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from serue@xxxxxxxxxx are implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch file-capabilities-honor-secure_noroot.patch merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace.patch merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace-fix.patch merge-sys_clone-sys_unshare-nsproxy-and-namespace-fix-2.patch integrity-service-api-and-dummy-provider-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html