linux-kernel - Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: simplify signal check

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:25:01 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	serge@...lyn.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: simplify signal check

serge@...lyn.com writes:

> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
>> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>> 
>> > um, is that code namespace-clean?
>> 
>> Choke, gag.
>
> Oh, sorry, I got lost in the set of patches in the message.  To be
> clear, my little 4-patch uid-ns-signal patchset can simply be updated
> to make the cap_task_kill() uid check into if (task_user_equiv(current, p)
>
> But Eric if you simply drop cap_task_kill() (don't make it return 0,
> just drop the function and go back to not setting task_kill in the
> capability_security_ops) I'll ack that.  Else I'll write the patch
> thursday.  At this point the only thing that will be denied by
> cap_task_kill() but not by check_kill_permission() is funky euid cases.
> That's wrong.  (cc'ing amorgan in the event I'm forgetting something
> useful the fn is doing)

Go ahead.   I'm fighting a cold and am fairly overloaded at the moment.

Eric
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