netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10748] New: dhclient fails to run; capabilities error

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 19:37:03 +0530
From:	"Amit Shah" <shahamit@...il.com>
To:	"Stephen Smalley" <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10748] New: dhclient fails to run; capabilities error

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:38 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> Which means that he is using the dummy security module.
>> And it appears that a prior commit moved KEEPCAPS handling from
>> core prctl() to cap_task_prctl(), but didn't replicate it in
>> the dummy_task_prctl().
>>
>> The dummy module really needs to die.
>
> Question for the bug reporter:  did you really mean to build a kernel
> without capabilities support?  Surprise!  They don't really work when
> disabled.

No; I was just trying out some random configs. This config worked till
.25 properly though.

-- 
Amit Shah
http://www.amitshah.net/
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