Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2023-05-31

Re: [PATCH v4 3/9] capability: use new capable_any functionality

From: Andrii Nakryiko <hidden>
Date: 2023-05-16 18:42:48
Also in: bpf, lkml, selinux

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 7:27 AM Christian Göttsche
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Use the new added capable_any function in appropriate cases, where a
task is required to have any of two capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <redacted>
---
v3:
  - rename to capable_any()
  - simplify checkpoint_restore_ns_capable()
---
 include/linux/capability.h | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
index eeb958440656..4db0ffb47271 100644
--- a/include/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -204,18 +204,17 @@ extern bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns,
 extern bool ptracer_capable(struct task_struct *tsk, struct user_namespace *ns);
 static inline bool perfmon_capable(void)
 {
-       return capable(CAP_PERFMON) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
+       return capable_any(CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
 }

 static inline bool bpf_capable(void)
 {
-       return capable(CAP_BPF) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
+       return capable_any(CAP_BPF, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
 }
For bpf parts:

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
 static inline bool checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
-       return ns_capable(ns, CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) ||
-               ns_capable(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
+       return ns_capable_any(ns, CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
 }

 /* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */
--
2.40.1
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