linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 6/7] prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERM

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Message-Id: <20200719100418.2112740-7-areber@redhat.com>
Date:   Sun, 19 Jul 2020 12:04:16 +0200
From:   Adrian Reber <areber@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <ovzxemul@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Nicolas Viennot <Nicolas.Viennot@...sigma.com>,
        Michał Cłapiński 
        <mclapinski@...gle.com>, Kamil Yurtsever <kyurtsever@...gle.com>,
        Dirk Petersen <dipeit@...il.com>,
        Christine Flood <chf@...hat.com>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Radostin Stoyanov <rstoyanov1@...il.com>,
        Adrian Reber <areber@...hat.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>,
        Sargun Dhillon <sargun@...gun.me>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 6/7] prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERM

From: Nicolas Viennot <Nicolas.Viennot@...sigma.com>

This brings consistency with the rest of the prctl() syscall where
-EPERM is returned when failing a capability check.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Viennot <Nicolas.Viennot@...sigma.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index a3f4ef0bbda3..ca11af9d815d 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_map(int opt, const void __user *addr, unsigned long data
 		 * This may have implications in the tomoyo subsystem.
 		 */
 		if (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(current_user_ns()))
-			return -EINVAL;
+			return -EPERM;
 
 		error = prctl_set_mm_exe_file(mm, prctl_map.exe_fd);
 		if (error)
-- 
2.26.2