linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] restore behaviour of CAP_SYS_ADMIN allowing the loading of net bpf program

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQ+BqPeVqbgojN+nhYTE0nDcGF2-TfaeqyfPLOF-+DLn5Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:02:03 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:     Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Linux Network Development Mailing List 
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        BPF Mailing List <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] restore behaviour of CAP_SYS_ADMIN allowing the loading
 of net bpf program

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:00 PM Maciej Żenczykowski
<zenczykowski@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
>
> This is a 5.8-rc1 regression.

Please add full explanation here.

Also use [PATCH bpf] in the subject for future submission.

> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Fixes: 2c78ee898d8f ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")

Reported-by: John
is missing?

> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
> index 8da159936bab..7d946435587d 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
> @@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ static int bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr, union bpf_attr __user *uattr)
>             !bpf_capable())
>                 return -EPERM;
>
> -       if (is_net_admin_prog_type(type) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
> +       if (is_net_admin_prog_type(type) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>                 return -EPERM;
>         if (is_perfmon_prog_type(type) && !perfmon_capable())
>                 return -EPERM;
> --
> 2.27.0.290.gba653c62da-goog
>