From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] capabilities: Ambient capability patchset Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 16:47:57 -0700 Message-ID: Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Serge Hallyn , Andrew Morton , James Morris Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen , Andrew Lutomirski , Ted Ts'o , "Andrew G. Morgan" , Linux API , Mimi Zohar , Michael Kerrisk , Austin S Hemmelgarn , linux-security-module , Aaron Jones , Serge Hallyn , LKML , Markku Savela , Kees Cook , Jonathan Corbet List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org This adds ambient capabilities. See the individual patch changelogs for details. Preliminary userspace code is here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/util-linux-playground.git/commit/?h=cap_ambient&id=7f5afbd175d2 James or akpm, I think this is ready for 4.2. Can one of you queue it up? Thanks, Andy Changes from v2: - Improve the patch 1 changelog a bit. - Add acks. - Add comment clarifying the pE' rule. - s/except/expect Changes from v1: - Lots of cleanups to the ambient cap code. - The securebit is new. Andy Lutomirski (2): capabilities: Ambient capabilities capabilities: Add a securebit to disable PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE fs/proc/array.c | 5 ++- include/linux/cred.h | 8 ++++ include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 6 +++ include/uapi/linux/securebits.h | 11 ++++- kernel/user_namespace.c | 1 + security/commoncap.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 + 7 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.1.0