From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev, "Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
"Christian Göttsche" <cgzones@googlemail.com>,
"Serge Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
"Sasha Levin" <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.17 004/563] pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:37:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251013144411.446175051@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251013144411.274874080@linuxfoundation.org>
6.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
[ Upstream commit b9cb7e59ac4ae68940347ebfc41e0436d32d3c6e ]
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 can either lead to the capability being
unnecessarily allowed in a security policy, or being silenced potentially
masking a legitimate capability check at a later point in time.
Similar to commit d6169b0206db ("net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when
determining net sysctl permissions")
Fixes: 7863dcc72d0f ("pid: allow pid_max to be set per pid namespace")
CC: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
CC: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
CC: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/pid.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index c45a28c16cd25..d94ce02505012 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static int pid_table_root_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
container_of(head->set, struct pid_namespace, set);
int mode = table->mode;
- if (ns_capable(pidns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
+ if (ns_capable_noaudit(pidns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
uid_eq(current_euid(), make_kuid(pidns->user_ns, 0)))
mode = (mode & S_IRWXU) >> 6;
else if (in_egroup_p(make_kgid(pidns->user_ns, 0)))
--
2.51.0
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