[PATCH V3 04/10] capabilities: use root_priveleged inline to clarify logic
From: serge@hallyn.com (Serge E. Hallyn)
Date: 2017-08-31 14:49:43
Quoting Richard Guy Briggs (rgb at redhat.com):
On 2017-08-25 15:58, James Morris wrote:quoted
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:quoted
Introduce inline root_privileged() to make use of SECURE_NONROOT easier to read. Suggested-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <redacted> --- security/commoncap.c | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)Acked-by: James Morris <redacted>Does anyone have the appetite to move this helper function to include/linux/securebits.h along with issecure() to make it more widely available?
If it's going to have wider scope, then it probably needs to be renamed to be unambiguous in any context. root_implies_privilege or uid0_is_privileged maybe? Maybe root_privileged() is ok... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html