This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-use-ns_capable_noaudit-when-determining-net-sysctl-permissions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d6e0d306449bcb5fa3c80e7a3edf11d45abf9ae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:43:22 -0500
Subject: net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit d6e0d306449bcb5fa3c80e7a3edf11d45abf9ae9 upstream.
The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.
The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.
BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sysctl_net.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/sysctl_net.c
+++ b/net/sysctl_net.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ct
kgid_t root_gid = make_kgid(net->user_ns, 0);
/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */
- if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
+ if (ns_capable_noaudit(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
uid_eq(root_uid, current_euid())) {
int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7;
return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/net-use-ns_capable_noaudit-when-determining-net-sysctl-permissions.patch
queue-4.4/kernel-add-noaudit-variant-of-ns_capable.patch
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