From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Chenbo Feng , Lorenzo Colitti , Daniel Borkmann Subject: [PATCH 4.4 42/43] bpf: skip unnecessary capability check Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:27:46 +0200 Message-Id: <20180327162718.745862535@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180327162716.407986916@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180327162716.407986916@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chenbo Feng commit 0fa4fe85f4724fff89b09741c437cbee9cf8b008 upstream. The current check statement in BPF syscall will do a capability check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN before checking sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled. This code path will trigger unnecessary security hooks on capability checking and cause false alarms on unprivileged process trying to get CAP_SYS_ADMIN access. This can be resolved by simply switch the order of the statement and CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not required anyway if unprivileged bpf syscall is allowed. Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(bpf, int, cmd, union bpf union bpf_attr attr = {}; int err; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled) + if (sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uattr, 1))