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Subject: [Bug 214705] New: execve(2) omits EACCES due to capabilities
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:36:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-214705-11311@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/> (raw)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214705

            Bug ID: 214705
           Summary: execve(2) omits EACCES due to capabilities
           Product: Documentation
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: man-pages
          Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
          Reporter: dspeyer@gmail.com
        Regression: No

The man page for execve lists only 4 reasons the syscall can fail with
errno==EACCES.  In fact, there is at least one more.  If the binary being
executed has a setfattr'ed capability such as CAP_IPC_LOCK which is not
supported in the caller's kernel namespace (docker container), execve will fail
with this error.

I just spent a great deal of frustrating effort searching for a non-existent
elf interpreter or mount-noexec issue because I trusted this man page.

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