linux-kernel - Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities

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Message-ID: <20150203172956.GA4860@mail.hallyn.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:29:56 +0100
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@...il.com>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set
 of capabilities

Quoting Christoph Lameter (cl@...ux.com):
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > So again I think the pA seems like an elegant way to work around this.
> > I'm interested in other ideas, but I worry about the proc solution Christoph
> > proposed because it would be system- or namespace-wide, rather than
> > per-process.
> 
> Ok can we have a patch that realizes this? Maybe only a rough one?

I can't work on one today, but if noone else gets to it I'd like to
try to get to it later this week.

Would be good to have patches for both approaches, to compare.
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