Patch "net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-use-ns_capable_noaudit-when-determining-net-sysctl-permissions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.

From d6e0d306449bcb5fa3c80e7a3edf11d45abf9ae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Tyler Hicks <redacted>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:43:22 -0500
Subject: net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

From: Tyler Hicks <redacted>

commit d6e0d306449bcb5fa3c80e7a3edf11d45abf9ae9 upstream.

The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.

The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <redacted>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <redacted>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/sysctl_net.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sysctl_net.c
+++ b/net/sysctl_net.c

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ct
 	kgid_t root_gid = make_kgid(net->user_ns, 0);
 
 	/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */
-	if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
+	if (ns_capable_noaudit(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
 	    uid_eq(root_uid, current_euid())) {
 		int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7;
 		return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tyhicks@canonical.com are

queue-4.7/net-use-ns_capable_noaudit-when-determining-net-sysctl-permissions.patch
queue-4.7/kernel-add-noaudit-variant-of-ns_capable.patch