From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Amit Shah" Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10748] New: dhclient fails to run; capabilities error Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:37:03 +0530 Message-ID: <877aabc40805200707uf2bd4d8k5d82ee7c9beeb7a5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080519112835.67ff4133.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080520134919.GA8079@sergelap.wowway.com> <1211290714.7486.105.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <1211291902.7486.121.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , "Andrew Morton" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, "Andrew Morgan" To: "Stephen Smalley" Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.235]:31534 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753283AbYETOHG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 10:07:06 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l9so2033380rvb.1 for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 07:07:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1211291902.7486.121.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:38 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: >> Which means that he is using the dummy security module. >> And it appears that a prior commit moved KEEPCAPS handling from >> core prctl() to cap_task_prctl(), but didn't replicate it in >> the dummy_task_prctl(). >> >> The dummy module really needs to die. > > Question for the bug reporter: did you really mean to build a kernel > without capabilities support? Surprise! They don't really work when > disabled. No; I was just trying out some random configs. This config worked till .25 properly though. -- Amit Shah http://www.amitshah.net/