linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear caps cleanup

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:18:50 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Andrew Morgan <agm@...gle.com>, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@...gai.gr.jp>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Steve Beattie <sbeattie@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear caps cleanup

>From 88115394044e697ac852f7fb9f30483e87f4f598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:01:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear caps cleanup

As suggested by Steve Beattie, rather than jump into a
conditional block in certain cases, define and use a
static inline bprm_clear_caps().

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
---
 security/commoncap.c |   26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index cc50a61..b08d250 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ void cap_capset_set (struct task_struct *target, kernel_cap_t *effective,
 	target->cap_permitted = *permitted;
 }
 
+static inline void bprm_clear_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
+{
+	cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable);
+	cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted);
+	cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
 
 static inline int cap_from_disk(struct vfs_cap_data_disk *dcap,
@@ -144,8 +151,10 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	struct inode *inode;
 
 	dcaps = (struct vfs_cap_data_disk *)&v1caps;
-	if (bprm->file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)
-		goto clear_caps;
+	if (bprm->file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID) {
+		bprm_clear_caps(bprm);
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	dentry = dget(bprm->file->f_dentry);
 	inode = dentry->d_inode;
@@ -186,21 +195,16 @@ out:
 	dput(dentry);
 	if ((void *)dcaps != (void *)&v1caps)
 		kfree(dcaps);
-	if (rc) {
-clear_caps:
-		cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable);
-		cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted);
-		cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective);
-	}
+	if (rc)
+		bprm_clear_caps(bprm);
+
 	return rc;
 }
 
 #else
 static inline int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 {
-	cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable);
-	cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted);
-	cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective);
+	bprm_clear_caps(bprm);
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif
-- 
1.5.1.1.GIT

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