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[PATCH V3 02/10] capabilities: intuitive names for cap gain status

From: Richard Guy Briggs <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-04 06:57:23

On 2017-09-02 00:37, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:18:43AM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
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On 2017-08-28 07:08, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
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On 2017-08-28 05:19, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
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On 2017-08-24 12:06, Kees Cook wrote:
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Serge E. Hallyn [off-list ref] wrote:
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Quoting Richard Guy Briggs (rgb at redhat.com):
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On 2017-08-24 11:03, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
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Quoting Richard Guy Briggs (rgb at redhat.com):
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Introduce macros cap_gained, cap_grew, cap_full to make the use of the
negation of is_subset() easier to read and analyse.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <redacted>
---
 security/commoncap.c |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index b7fbf77..6f05ec0 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -513,6 +513,12 @@ void handle_privileged_root(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool has_cap, bool *effec
          *effective = true;
 }
It's subjective and so might be just me, but I think I'd find it easier
to read if it was cap_gained(source, target, field) and cap_grew(cred, source, target)
In more than one place, I wanted to put the parameter that I was trying
to read aloud closest to the function name to make reading it flow
better, leaving the parameters less critical to comprehension towards
the end.
And I see that in the final patch it looks nicer the way you have it.
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This looks correct though, so either way

Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Thanks.  Did you want to put this through, or send it through Paul's
audit tree?
If Paul's around I'm happy to have it go through his tree.
Is this series based against -next with the changes that touch commoncap.c?
This series is against pcmoore's audit/next tree (I know I'm missing two
commits but they pose no conflict.).

Which -next tree are you talking about?  I might guess
linux-security/next or linux-next/master (I have at least a dozen "next"
in my git repo config.)

I did eventually find your patches in sfr's tree and in your for-next/kspp branch.

I'll have a look at the commoncap.c changes including the elimination of cap_effective.
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Also, did you validate this with the existing LTP tests and selftests?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/secureexec&id=ee67ae7ef6ff499137292ac8a9dfe86096796283
No.  I will look into doing that.  Thanks for the suggestion.
Ok, I'm running the kernel self-test

	make TARGETS="capabilities" kselftest

and getting a good way through it and then hit this on an unmodified kernel:

	[RUN]   +++ Tests with uid != 0 +++
	[NOTE]  Using global UIDs for tests
	[OK]    Child succeeded
	test_execve: chdir to private tmpfs: Permission denied
Hm, just a hunch, anything in syslog?  The fact that you can mount the
private tmp but not chdir to it just sounds like selinux contexts.
Nothing in journalctl -b, nothing in /var/log
Might run it under strace...
strace reports: chdir("/root/rgb/git/linux-2.6/tools/testing/selftests/capabilities") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

An audit rule only reports the previous success.

Problem looks to be the nfs mount on which the test is run.  Running it
locally works fine.
Boy, that's an interesting testcase.  
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	[FAIL]  Child failed
	selftests:  test_execve [FAIL]

Is this a known limitation or have I got something weird in my runtime
environment that is killing it at this part of the test?
Ok, cleared that up...

Next I'm trying to run the ltp and it hangs on several tests and
eventually trashes my nfs mount and can't make further progress.
Kees, what version of the LTP do you run and what subset of tests do you
suggest to validate things?  I'm running the upstream clone git.

- RGB

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