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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 2/5] userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace.
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:15:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830011513.GC12720@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh9cyrxj.fsf@xmission.com>

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> 
> As the capabilites and capability bounding set are per user namespace
> properties it is safe to allow changing them with just CAP_SETPCAP
> permission in the user namespace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>

> ---
>  security/commoncap.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
> index c44b6fe..9fccf71 100644
> --- a/security/commoncap.c
> +++ b/security/commoncap.c
> @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ int cap_task_setnice(struct task_struct *p, int nice)
>   */
>  static long cap_prctl_drop(struct cred *new, unsigned long cap)
>  {
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SETPCAP))
> +	if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SETPCAP))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  	if (!cap_valid(cap))
>  		return -EINVAL;
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-29 23:52 [REVIEW][PATCH 0/5] A couple of lingering namespace patches Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-29 23:53 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 1/5] namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30 16:10   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-08-29 23:54 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 2/5] userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30  1:15   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2013-08-29 23:55 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 3/5] pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30 16:38   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-08-30 23:49     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-31  5:31       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2013-09-08 17:00   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-29 23:55 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 4/5] capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-29 23:56 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 5/5] userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-30  1:14   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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