Browse Source

capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit

For consistency in interfaces, introduce a new interface called
has_ns_capabilities_noaudit.  It checks if the given task has the given
capability in the given namespace.  Use this new function by
has_capabilities_noaudit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Eric Paris 13 years ago
parent
commit
7b61d64849
2 changed files with 27 additions and 5 deletions
  1. 2 0
      include/linux/capability.h
  2. 25 5
      kernel/capability.c

+ 2 - 0
include/linux/capability.h

@@ -543,6 +543,8 @@ extern bool has_capability(struct task_struct *t, int cap);
 extern bool has_ns_capability(struct task_struct *t,
 			      struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
 extern bool has_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, int cap);
+extern bool has_ns_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t,
+				      struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
 extern bool capable(int cap);
 extern bool ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
 extern bool task_ns_capable(struct task_struct *t, int cap);

+ 25 - 5
kernel/capability.c

@@ -325,27 +325,47 @@ bool has_capability(struct task_struct *t, int cap)
 }
 
 /**
- * has_capability_noaudit - Does a task have a capability (unaudited)
+ * has_ns_capability_noaudit - Does a task have a capability (unaudited)
+ * in a specific user ns.
  * @t: The task in question
+ * @ns: target user namespace
  * @cap: The capability to be tested for
  *
  * Return true if the specified task has the given superior capability
- * currently in effect to init_user_ns, false if not.  Don't write an
- * audit message for the check.
+ * currently in effect to the specified user namespace, false if not.
+ * Do not write an audit message for the check.
  *
  * Note that this does not set PF_SUPERPRIV on the task.
  */
-bool has_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, int cap)
+bool has_ns_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t,
+			       struct user_namespace *ns, int cap)
 {
 	int ret;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	ret = security_capable_noaudit(__task_cred(t), &init_user_ns, cap);
+	ret = security_capable_noaudit(__task_cred(t), ns, cap);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return (ret == 0);
 }
 
+/**
+ * has_capability_noaudit - Does a task have a capability (unaudited) in the
+ * initial user ns
+ * @t: The task in question
+ * @cap: The capability to be tested for
+ *
+ * Return true if the specified task has the given superior capability
+ * currently in effect to init_user_ns, false if not.  Don't write an
+ * audit message for the check.
+ *
+ * Note that this does not set PF_SUPERPRIV on the task.
+ */
+bool has_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, int cap)
+{
+	return has_ns_capability_noaudit(t, &init_user_ns, cap);
+}
+
 /**
  * capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect
  * @cap: The capability to be tested for