[PATCH 6.12 003/567] bpf, arm64: Do not audit capability check in do_jit()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:15:56Z

From: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 189e5deb944a6f9c7992355d60bffd8ec2e54a9c ]

Analogically to the x86 commit 881a9c9cb785 ("bpf: Do not audit
capability check in do_jit()"), change the capable() call to
ns_capable_noaudit() in order to avoid spurious SELinux denials in audit
log.

The commit log from that commit applies here as well:
"""
The failure of this check only results in a security mitigation being
applied, slightly affecting performance of the compiled BPF program. It
doesn't result in a failed syscall, an thus auditing a failed LSM
permission check for it is unwanted. For example with SELinux, it causes
a denial to be reported for confined processes running as root, which
tends to be flagged as a problem to be fixed in the policy. Yet
dontauditing or allowing CAP_SYS_ADMIN to the domain may not be
desirable, as it would allow/silence also other checks - either going
against the principle of least privilege or making debugging potentially
harder.

Fix it by changing it from capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(), which
instructs the LSMs to not audit the resulting denials.
"""

Fixes: f300769ead03 ("arm64: bpf: Only mitigate cBPF programs loaded by unprivileged users")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251204125916.441021-1-omosnace@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index ca6d002a6f137..82b57436f2f10 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static void __maybe_unused build_bhb_mitigation(struct jit_ctx *ctx)
arm64_get_spectre_v2_state() == SPECTRE_VULNERABLE)
return;

- if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return;

if (supports_clearbhb(SCOPE_SYSTEM)) {
--
2.51.0