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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Chris Friedhoff <chris@friedhoff.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: file caps: permit unsafe signaling when CONFIG_FS_CAPS=n
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:17:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061124181742.GA32443@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061124161626.GA22462@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>

Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serue@us.ibm.com):
> Ok, the following patch restores the CONFIG_FS_CAPS=n signaling
> behavior, but I'm having a config problem.  When
> CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=n, and I toggle
> CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES between y and n, security/commoncap.o
> does not recompile.  However since capabilities are now the default
> security module, commoncap.o is in fact included in the kernel build,
> and therefore should be recompiled.
> 
> Looking into why, but maybe someone knows offhand what would be going
> wrong?

Uh, never mind.  It does the right thing.  CONFIG_SECURITY=n means we
use capabilities, but CONFIG_SECURITY=y and CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=n 
means we use dummy.  The following patch fixes the Kconfig accordingly.

From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] file caps: don't show FILE_CAPABILITIES option when not relevant

FILE_CAPABILITIES are relevant when CONFIG_SECURITY=n, but not when
CONFIG_SECURITY=y && CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=n.  So make
CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES depend on the right conditions.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
---
 security/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 6c9d69e..1b47f01 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ config SECURITY_CAPABILITIES
 
 config SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES
 	bool "File POSIX Capabilities"
+	depends on SECURITY=n || SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
 	default n
 	help
 	  This enables filesystem capabilities, allowing you to give
-- 
1.4.1


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-24 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-14  3:06 security: introduce file caps Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-15  8:55 ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-23  8:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23  8:22   ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <20061123131203.f7b6972f.chris@friedhoff.org>
2006-11-23 18:39       ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 21:41         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-23 23:21           ` Chris Friedhoff
2006-11-24 16:16         ` file caps: permit unsafe signaling when CONFIG_FS_CAPS=n Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-24 18:17           ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2006-11-25 21:19             ` Chris Friedhoff

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