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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugfix: was Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:14:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080610191451.GL4018@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484E0280.2050305@kernel.org>

* Andrew G. Morgan (morgan@kernel.org) wrote:
> --- a/security/dummy.c
> +++ b/security/dummy.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>  #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
>  #include <linux/ptrace.h>
>  #include <linux/file.h>
> +#include <linux/prctl.h>
> +#include <linux/securebits.h>
>  
>  static int dummy_ptrace (struct task_struct *parent, struct task_struct *child)
>  {
> @@ -607,7 +609,27 @@ static int dummy_task_kill (struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo *info,
>  static int dummy_task_prctl (int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
>  			     unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5, long *rc_p)
>  {
> -	return 0;
> +	switch (option) {
> +	case PR_CAPBSET_READ:
> +		*rc_p = (cap_valid(arg2) ? 1 : -EINVAL);
> +		break;

Do we need this one?  It's new to 2.6.25, so I think we could not
worry about emulating it here.

> +	case PR_GET_KEEPCAPS:
> +		*rc_p = issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
> +		break;
> +	case PR_SET_KEEPCAPS:
> +		if (arg2 > 1)
> +			*rc_p = -EINVAL;
> +		else if (arg2)
> +			current->securebits |= issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
> +		else
> +			current->securebits &=
> +				~issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 1;
>  }
>  
>  static void dummy_task_reparent_to_init (struct task_struct *p)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08 13:38 [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-08 15:10 ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 18:06   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 22:34     ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 23:39       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 17:17         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-10  4:26           ` [PATCH] bugfix: was " Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10  5:21             ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 19:12             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-11  0:39               ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10 19:14             ` Chris Wright [this message]
2008-06-11  0:37               ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-11 14:21                 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-10 16:12           ` Chris Wright

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