From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Jared Finder" <jared@finder.org>, "Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>,
"Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
"Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const: Document CAP_SYS_ADMIN requirement for TIOCL_SETSEL modes
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 12:24:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250502102405.4891-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
CAP_SYS_ADMIN was previously required for the entire TIOCL_SETSEL
subcode, but is now only needed for a subset of the selection modes,
since linux.git 2f83e38a095f (2025-01-13; "tty: Permit some
TIOCL_SETSEL modes without CAP_SYS_ADMIN").
The CAP_SYS_ADMIN requirement for TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT was further
corrected in linux.git ee6a44da3c87 (2025-04-11; "tty: Require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN for all usages of TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT").
Admittedly, there are kernels where CAP_SYS_ADMIN was briefly not
required for TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT, even after Linux v6.7, but this was
a mistake which is now fixed in all up-to-date stable kernels.
Therefore, we still document CAP_SYS_ADMIN as required "since Linux
6.7" in this case.
Link: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=2f83e38a095f8bf7c6029883d894668b03b9bd93>
Link: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=ee6a44da3c87cf64d67dd02be8c0127a5bf56175>
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
index 61f1c596d..b98a0202b 100644
--- a/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const
@@ -72,18 +72,30 @@ may be one of the following operations:
Select character-by-character.
The indicated screen characters are highlighted
and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.IP
+Since Linux 6.7, using this selection mode requires the
+.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+capability.
.TP
.B TIOCL_SELWORD
Select word-by-word,
expanding the selection outwards to align with word boundaries.
The indicated screen characters are highlighted
and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.IP
+Since Linux 6.7, using this selection mode requires the
+.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+capability.
.TP
.B TIOCL_SELLINE
Select line-by-line,
expanding the selection outwards to select full lines.
The indicated screen characters are highlighted
and saved in a kernel buffer.
+.IP
+Since Linux 6.7, using this selection mode requires the
+.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+capability.
.TP
.B TIOCL_SELPOINTER
Show the pointer at position
@@ -118,11 +130,11 @@ If mouse reporting is not enabled for the terminal,
this operation yields an
.B EINVAL
error.
-.RE
.IP
-Since Linux 6.7, using this subcode requires the
+Since Linux 6.7, using this selection mode requires the
.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
capability.
+.RE
.TP
.BR subcode = TIOCL_PASTESEL
Paste selection.
--
2.49.0
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2025-05-02 10:43 ` [PATCH v2] man/man2const/TIOCLINUX.2const: Document CAP_SYS_ADMIN requirement for TIOCL_SETSEL modes Alejandro Colomar
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