Re: [PATCH v2] block: Check ADMIN before NICE for IOPRIO_CLASS_RT

Booting to Android userspace on 5.14 or newer triggers the following
SELinux denial:

avc: denied { sys_nice } for comm="init" capability=23
      scontext=u:r:init:s0 tcontext=u:r:init:s0 tclass=capability
      permissive=0

Init is PID 0 running as root, so it already has CAP_SYS_ADMIN. For
better compatibility with older SEPolicy, check ADMIN before NICE.

Fixes: 9d3a39a5f1e4 ("block: grant IOPRIO_CLASS_RT to CAP_SYS_NICE")
Signed-off-by: Alistair Delva <redacted>
Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov <redacted>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted> # v5.14+
---
v2: added comment requested by Jens
  block/ioprio.c | 9 ++++++++-
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c
index 0e4ff245f2bf..313c14a70bbd 100644
--- a/block/ioprio.c
+++ b/block/ioprio.c

@@ -69,7 +69,14 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
  
  	switch (class) {
  		case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
-			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+			/*
+			 * Originally this only checked for CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
+			 * which was implicitly allowed for pid 0 by security
+			 * modules such as SELinux. Make sure we check
+			 * CAP_SYS_ADMIN first to avoid a denial/avc for
+			 * possibly missing CAP_SYS_NICE permission.
+			 */
+			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE))
  				return -EPERM;
  			fallthrough;
  			/* rt has prio field too */