Re: [uml-devel] cap-bound not working in uml

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Sunday 16 July 2006 14:05, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:31:51PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 July 2006 17:23, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> > > I was trying to limit some unecessary capabilities in a UML instance
> > > with /proc/sys/kernel/cap-bound, but it turned out not to take.
> >
> > To remove capabilities from the whole system (i.e. all processes) the
> > recommended way wasn't to use lcap (or a similar program bundled with
> > libcap)?
>
> Yup, lcap is just an interface to /proc/sys/kernel/cap-bound.

I remember maybe some differences UML specific capabilities code in arch/um 
(it used to clear some capabilities, i.e. /dev/mem or /dev/kmem access). 
Check for that...

> > > The source of the problem (or at least something a bit of the way up
> > > the garden path of the problem) is at security/commoncap.c:140 at the
> > > top of cap_bprm_apply_creds(bprm, unsafe):
> > >
> > >    void cap_bprm_apply_creds (struct linux_binprm *bprm, int unsafe)
> > >    {
> > >            /* Derived from fs/exec.c:compute_creds. */
> > >            kernel_cap_t new_permitted, working;
> > >
> > >            new_permitted = cap_intersect (bprm->cap_permitted,
> > > cap_bset); working = cap_intersect (bprm->cap_inheritable,
> > >                                     current->cap_inheritable);
> > >            new_permitted = cap_combine (new_permitted, working);
> > >            ...
> > >
> > > Here the new permitted set gets limited to the bits in cap_bset, which
> > > is as it should be, but then the intersection of the of the current
> > > and exec inheritable masks get added to that set, whereas as I
> > > understand it, cap_bset should always be the bounding set.
> > >
> > > I've tried commenting out that bit and everything worked as I'd hoped
> > > (I haven't done extensive testing, but bounding the caps worked, as
> > > did suids and such).
> > >
> > > That doesn't explain why it works with those lines left in on a
> > > non-UML kernel though, so I assume I'm missing something fundamental.
> > >
> > > (My guest kernel is
> > >   Linux version 2.6.16.24 (fvw@jupiter.var.cx) (gcc version 4.0.3
> > > 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)) #3 Sat Jul 15 16:54:20 CEST
> > > 2006 , should it matter)

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