The patch titled
capabilities: clean up file capability reading
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
capabilities-clean-up-file-capability-reading.patch
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Subject: capabilities: clean up file capability reading
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Simplify the vfs_cap_data structure.
Also fix get_file_caps which was declaring
__le32 v1caps[XATTR_CAPS_SZ] on the stack, but
XATTR_CAPS_SZ is already * sizeof(__le32).
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/capability.h | 6 ++----
security/commoncap.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/capability.h~capabilities-clean-up-file-capability-reading include/linux/capability.h
--- a/include/linux/capability.h~capabilities-clean-up-file-capability-reading
+++ a/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -56,10 +56,8 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
struct vfs_cap_data {
__u32 magic_etc; /* Little endian */
- struct {
- __u32 permitted; /* Little endian */
- __u32 inheritable; /* Little endian */
- } data[1];
+ __u32 permitted; /* Little endian */
+ __u32 inheritable; /* Little endian */
};
#ifdef __KERNEL__
diff -puN security/commoncap.c~capabilities-clean-up-file-capability-reading security/commoncap.c
--- a/security/commoncap.c~capabilities-clean-up-file-capability-reading
+++ a/security/commoncap.c
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ int cap_inode_killpriv(struct dentry *de
return inode->i_op->removexattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS);
}
-static inline int cap_from_disk(__le32 *caps, struct linux_binprm *bprm,
+static inline int cap_from_disk(struct vfs_cap_data *caps,
+ struct linux_binprm *bprm,
int size)
{
__u32 magic_etc;
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ static inline int cap_from_disk(__le32 *
if (size != XATTR_CAPS_SZ)
return -EINVAL;
- magic_etc = le32_to_cpu(caps[0]);
+ magic_etc = le32_to_cpu(caps->magic_etc);
switch ((magic_etc & VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK)) {
case VFS_CAP_REVISION:
@@ -156,8 +157,8 @@ static inline int cap_from_disk(__le32 *
bprm->cap_effective = true;
else
bprm->cap_effective = false;
- bprm->cap_permitted = to_cap_t( le32_to_cpu(caps[1]) );
- bprm->cap_inheritable = to_cap_t( le32_to_cpu(caps[2]) );
+ bprm->cap_permitted = to_cap_t( le32_to_cpu(caps->permitted) );
+ bprm->cap_inheritable = to_cap_t( le32_to_cpu(caps->inheritable) );
return 0;
default:
return -EINVAL;
@@ -169,7 +170,7 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_bi
{
struct dentry *dentry;
int rc = 0;
- __le32 v1caps[XATTR_CAPS_SZ];
+ struct vfs_cap_data incaps;
struct inode *inode;
if (bprm->file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID) {
@@ -182,8 +183,14 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_bi
if (!inode->i_op || !inode->i_op->getxattr)
goto out;
- rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS, &v1caps,
- XATTR_CAPS_SZ);
+ rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS, NULL, 0);
+ if (rc > 0) {
+ if (rc == XATTR_CAPS_SZ)
+ rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS,
+ &incaps, XATTR_CAPS_SZ);
+ else
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ }
if (rc == -ENODATA || rc == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
/* no data, that's ok */
rc = 0;
@@ -192,7 +199,7 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_bi
if (rc < 0)
goto out;
- rc = cap_from_disk(v1caps, bprm, rc);
+ rc = cap_from_disk(&incaps, bprm, rc);
if (rc)
printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: cap_from_disk returned %d for %s\n",
__FUNCTION__, rc, bprm->filename);
_
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