The patch titled capabilities: add bounding set to /proc/self/status has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is capabilities-add-bounding-set-to-proc-self-status.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: capabilities: add bounding set to /proc/self/status From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> There is currently no way to query the bounding set of another task. As there appears to be no security reason not to, and as Michael Kerrisk points out the following valid reasons to do so exist: * consistency (I can see all of the other per-thread/process sets in /proc/.../status) * debugging -- I could imagine that it would make the job of debugging an application that uses capabilities a little simpler. this patch adds the bounding set to /proc/self/status right after the effective set. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/array.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/proc/array.c~capabilities-add-bounding-set-to-proc-self-status fs/proc/array.c --- a/fs/proc/array.c~capabilities-add-bounding-set-to-proc-self-status +++ a/fs/proc/array.c @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static inline void task_cap(struct seq_f render_cap_t(m, "CapInh:\t", &p->cap_inheritable); render_cap_t(m, "CapPrm:\t", &p->cap_permitted); render_cap_t(m, "CapEff:\t", &p->cap_effective); + render_cap_t(m, "CapBnd:\t", &p->cap_bset); } static inline void task_context_switch_counts(struct seq_file *m, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from serue@xxxxxxxxxx are git-unionfs.patch capabilities-add-bounding-set-to-proc-self-status.patch reiser4.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