06 Feb, 2008
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The patch supports legacy (32-bit) capability userspace, and where possible
translates 32-bit capabilities to/from userspace and the VFS to 64-bit
kernel space capabilities. If a capability set cannot be compressed into
32-bits for consumption by user space, the system call fails, with -ERANGE.FWIW libcap-2.00 supports this change (and earlier capability formats)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.6/
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_task_comm()]
[ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unused var]
[serue@us.ibm.com: export __cap_ symbols]
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Chris Wright
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Casey Schaufler
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Oct, 2007
4 commits
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The find_pid/_vpid/_pid_ns functions are used to find the struct pid by its
id, depending on whic id - global or virtual - is used.The find_vpid() is a macro that pushes the current->nsproxy->pid_ns on the
stack to call another function - find_pid_ns(). It turned out, that this
dereference together with the push itself cause the kernel text size to
grow too much.Move all these out-of-line. Together with the previous patch this saves a
bit less that 400 bytes from .text section.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one. All of
them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() -
and just substitute some args for it.It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction
and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to
grow.This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c. Together
with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text
section.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.The idea is:
- all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
- when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
- when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
task's namespace the global one is to be used;
- when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.
A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.Changelog:
2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
and remove dependence on the task_pid().2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:
- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
bug rather than force a kernel panic.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Herbert Poetzel
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Oct, 2007
2 commits
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Large chunks of 5 spaces instead of tabs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker
Cc: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The non-filesystem capability meaning of CAP_SETPCAP is that a process, p1,
can change the capabilities of another process, p2. This is not the
meaning that was intended for this capability at all, and this
implementation came about purely because, without filesystem capabilities,
there was no way to use capabilities without one process bestowing them on
another.Since we now have a filesystem support for capabilities we can fix the
implementation of CAP_SETPCAP.The most significant thing about this change is that, with it in effect, no
process can set the capabilities of another process.The capabilities of a program are set via the capability convolution
rules:pI(post-exec) = pI(pre-exec)
pP(post-exec) = (X(aka cap_bset) & fP) | (pI(post-exec) & fI)
pE(post-exec) = fE ? pP(post-exec) : 0at exec() time. As such, the only influence the pre-exec() program can
have on the post-exec() program's capabilities are through the pI
capability set.The correct implementation for CAP_SETPCAP (and that enabled by this patch)
is that it can be used to add extra pI capabilities to the current process
- to be picked up by subsequent exec()s when the above convolution rules
are applied.Here is how it works:
Let's say we have a process, p. It has capability sets, pE, pP and pI.
Generally, p, can change the value of its own pI to pI' where(pI' & ~pI) & ~pP = 0.
That is, the only new things in pI' that were not present in pI need to
be present in pP.The role of CAP_SETPCAP is basically to permit changes to pI beyond
the above:if (pE & CAP_SETPCAP) {
pI' = anything; /* ie., even (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP != 0 */
}This capability is useful for things like login, which (say, via
pam_cap) might want to raise certain inheritable capabilities for use
by the children of the logged-in user's shell, but those capabilities
are not useful to or needed by the login program itself.One such use might be to limit who can run ping. You set the
capabilities of the 'ping' program to be "= cap_net_raw+i", and then
only shells that have (pI & CAP_NET_RAW) will be able to run
it. Without CAP_SETPCAP implemented as described above, login(pam_cap)
would have to also have (pP & CAP_NET_RAW) in order to raise this
capability and pass it on through the inheritable set.Signed-off-by: Andrew Morgan
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Casey Schaufler
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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This patch contains the following cleanups that are now possible:
- remove the unused security_operations->inode_xattr_getsuffix
- remove the no longer used security_operations->unregister_security
- remove some no longer required exit code
- remove a bunch of no longer used exportsSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: James Morris
Cc: Chris Wright
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Cc: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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There isn't any real advantage to this change except that it allows the old
functions to be removed. Which is easier on maintenance and puts the code in
a more uniform style.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.Eric's original description:
There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
because we give it special properties. Most significantly init
must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test
->pid == 1.Introduce is_init to capture this case.
With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
process that has pid == 1.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc:
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I
introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake.Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all
secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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Move capable() to kernel/capability.c and eliminate duplicate
implementations. Add __capable() function which can be used to check for
capabiilty of any process.Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;
- Use where capable() is used
(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
mm/, security/, & sound/;
many more drivers/ to go)Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Jul, 2005
1 commit
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Add kerneldoc to kernel/capability.c
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
